Sorry, bad idea. We map the roads, not the vehicles. It is not illegal to drive a car with the wheel on the "wrong" side - millions of Europeans do it regularly, both on holiday and because certain models of car are only made for certain markets. Let's stick to driving_side referring to the side of the road.
By the way, when Samoa changed from driving on the right to driving on the left a couple of years ago, that was because most of the vehicles were imported second-hand from Australia and therefore had the steering wheel on the right anyway... Colin On 2014-03-21 21:24, Fernando Trebien 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 [1] -- 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) Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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