On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) <[email protected]> wrote: > Further to Tobias's raising of :<mode>, :wet, :<direction> etc. for > pseudovoting, I'd like to raise a general method for tagging properties > of the two sides of the road: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left > > The proposal suggests an interpretation of suffixes like > > <property>:left=<value> > <property>:right=<value> > > which works in a backwards-compatible way and which is machine- > interpretable for different classes of application. It does not suggest > any particular keys for <property>, however it might ultimately be used > to resolve the inability to specify which side(s) of the road a cycleway > is on, for example. > > I think it would work quite well for static, non-access-related features > applicable only to single sides of the road. Abutters, cycleways, names > spring to mind as immediate uses.
And every time using :left and :right comes up, we all have a big discussion about it and then nobody pays any attention and it comes up again a few months later. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
