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) -- 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) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
