Re: [Tagging] emergency bays - which side?

Similar tagging scheme, yes, but with a big functional difference, that is, they appear on single-lane roads and can be used in both directions, independently of the side of the road they are on. My starting question was specifically for emergency bays on two-lane roads where, typically, you could

Re: [Tagging] emergency bays - which side?

Another one that is similar is passing place: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpassing_place Seems to be rather similar to emergency_bay in tagging methodology. m. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: > Emergency bays and bus bays are

Re: [Tagging] emergency bays - which side?

Emergency bays and bus bays are physically very similar, i.e. a short piece of an additional lane on a road. Unfortunately the two tags highway=emergency_bay and bus_bay=both|left|right use very different approaches to describing essential the same physical arrangement. bus_bay=both|left|right

Re: [Tagging] emergency bays - which side?

For bus bays the way is split twice, creating an extra segment. At that point it's easy to use left/right/both. This is the same principle that is used when tagging turn lanes near crossings. I'm sure there are people who don't like splitting ways in ever smaller pieces, but that ship has sailed.

Re: [Tagging] emergency bays - which side?

for bus_bays the wiki defines left/right/both (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bus_bay) It makes sense to use the same I think. m. On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: > The tag highway=emergency_bay as node is in use 3700 times, even though it > is