On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM,  <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My concern with right / left is that some may think "ok we drive on the
> right side of the road so it must be cycleway:right" (similarly left for
> countries such as the UK that drive on the left side of the road). A quick
> look on TagInfo reveals:
>
> cycleway:right=* - 9190 occurrences
> cycleway:left=* - 4329 occurrences
>
> A way has a 50/50% chance of being drawn in either direction so (unless
> people are reversing ways as they prefer right to left) then you would
> expect the split to be closer.

Ok, so, you have a hypothesis that people are using the tag incorrectly.

1) Could you find some examples to see if this true
2) What do you think should be done, if so?

Steve

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