On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:26:19PM +0200, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> I just noticed an apparent contradiction regarding the use of the oneway
> tag between the wiki pages key:oneway
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway> and motorway
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway> .
> The former states:
> "Some tags (such as junction
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction>=roundabout
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout>, highway
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=motorway
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway> and others)
> imply oneway=yes and therefore the oneway tag is optional,
> the latter states:
> "These ways should all point direction of travel and be tagged with oneway
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway>=yes"
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:oneway%3Dyes>
> 
> What is the agreed standard, if any?

In ancient OSM history roundabouts and motorways had oneways. This has
since been obsoleted and implicitly assumed on those ways.

At least thats my memories from 1 1/2 decades.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f...@zz.de
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