> Editor support is less > important > - and far easier to fix - than explaining to all the people who > don't > even realise that all roads have a direction in openstreetmap - > and > except for oneway roads, I have no idea which ways are pointing > in > which directions, and it shouldn't be important unless it *has* > to be > important.
I don't think people are going to arbitrarily use the :left/:right tagging, except for cases where they feel it is necessary. It's certainly not something people new to the project will do as a first thing, and will only ever need it if they come up against something they want to map which is more complicated. Hopefully then they'd ask either here, on OSM-newbies or read the wiki to find a solution. So left and right relative to the direction of the way in the database (as displayed bottom left in Potlatch or with arrow heads in JOSM), is a logical solution for where you have things on only one side of the road (perhaps something like pavement:left=yes, pavement:right = no or something). Similarly the :forward/:backward proposal for where speed limits differ in opposite directions and other such cases. Oneway is strange in that as well as yes/no you can have oneway=-1 for one way in the opposite direction of the way, and I still can't work out why that is necessary. Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
