Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, But generally the question is should oneway to cars be tagged as oneway=yes? Because it paints a big oneway arrow on the map which will confuse everyone except car-drivers. Even if you're a cyclist or other user

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/09/2008 09:56, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: whether you can just cycle the wrong way down the road avoiding any on coming cars. I _think_ that is illegal in the UK anyway isn't it?

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ed Loach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy wrote: Actually they aren't - what they are doing is making one end of the road no access to motorised vehicles. So the road itself is no longer technically oneway, so it shouldn't need cycleway=opposite... So

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Steve Chilton
Not particularly relevant to current discussion, but I came a cross a new variant of the anti-rat-run measures when mapping a new estate in Chepstow at weekend. Two halves of the estate were separated by a road closed to cars, but with cycle/foot access. The blocker was a lowerable pole with

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/09/2008 09:56, Dave Stubbs wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Dave Stubbs wrote: whether you can just cycle the wrong way down the road avoiding any on

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/09/2008 11:46, Dave Stubbs wrote: cycleway=opposite_lane you mean? Yes, sorry. Or we start a guerilla campaign to fix the tagging at source... a few fake oneway signs, a hammer, and some cable ties should do the trick. Now there's an interesting thought: instead of changing the map to

Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars?

2008-09-24 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Andy Allan wrote: Doesn't seem to stop people arguing about it on the wiki, but every single time someone has claimed that there are cycleway=opposite in the UK it's never (AFAIK) actually held up to scrutiny. I think Union Street in Southwark: