Left-hand-driver cars are sometimes used in right-hand-drive countries, and vice versa. So, changing cars at a national border where the driving conventions differ is not mandatory in all cases. In fact, I have not heard of any cases where it is mandatory.
On March 21, 2014 3:24:21 PM CDT, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder what you mean by "Is there any interest of using it on > countries?". It's been defined for countries, and is used on it, as > you said. > > You could simply tag the country with "driving_side=right/left" and > use the same (but with the opposite value) on those streets. > > That said, I think driving side also implies "driver side" inside the > vehicle. Though I find it very unlikely to see this information in use > one day, it's best to define this meaning early on. A change of driver > side requires either a change of vehicle or some special vehicle that > can drive on both sides. In the case of your city, driving side > changes, but driver side doesn't. You could include that in the > description of "opposite". > > One more thing: this only makes sense if there is no physical barrier > between the opposite traffic directions. If there is, then it's just a > separate way with no special change in driving side. > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Fernando Trebien > <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:07 PM, John Packer > <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There is a tag documented on the wiki called > driving_side=right/left. > >> > >> According to it's description, this tag should only be used on > countries, > >> and it describes the side of the traffic in the whole country. > >> > >> So far so good, but according to taginfo it is used only once on a > relation, > >> however there are some uses on some ways, and even nodes(?). > >> > >> There are, in my city, a couple of streets that have an inverted > driving > >> side. > >> So I am going to extend this tag's documentation to include ways > that have > >> it's driving side opposite to it's country's normal driving side. > >> > >> Is there any interest of using it on countries? > >> If there is not, I will exclude the possibility of use on countries > from > >> this tag's documentation. > >> > >> Perhaps, with this new definition, this tag could be redefined to > have only > >> one value: driving_side=opposite > >> (this way, it could avoid any confusion about it's use) > >> > >> What do you think? > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Tagging mailing list > >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Fernando Trebien > > +55 (51) 9962-5409 > > > > "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) > > "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging