On 31.03.2014 10:52, Pieren wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:35 PM, John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The advantage of not having "opposite" as a value is not to need to verify >> the >> country's driving_side to be able to tell which driving_side that way has. > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:51 PM, John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I removed the value "opposite" from the page. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:driving_side&oldid=1008962 > > Sad. I'll not come back on this but you missed the main advantages of > the "opposite" value: > - for applications that need to know the driving side, they will need > to know the country rule anyway since we cannot expect that all > highways will be tagged with this attribute. > - for contributors, forcing them to use "opposite" on ways is clearly > indicating that we only want to tag the exceptions (avoid an > uncontrolled growth of normal driving_side=left/right on ways)
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