<div>I don't know when bicycle:backward=yes appeared - I've always used oneway:bicycle=no </div><div>(and taginfo puts it as 131 to 4831 uses, so I'm not the only one)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">It has been pointed out that some of these may be due to one-way roads (and as there are more countries that drive on the right, this would cause a slight bias), however in these cases the :right suffix is not always needed.<br>
<br>I can have a look for incorrect examples, but irrespective of whether I find any, I believe that the wiki page needs updating to better explain right/left. I am happy to have a go at doing this however as the lane enthusiasts and the 'access' page uses forward / backward instead I wondered whether there was any intention or hope to switch at some point in the future to bring consistency.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Rob<br><br>p.s. I'm not saying we should change, just wanted to open a discussion to allow others to voice their opinion before I add more details to the wiki page. :-)<br><br><br><br>On , Steve Bennett <<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM, <a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > My concern with right / left is that some may think "ok we drive on the<br>
> <br>> > right side of the road so it must be cycleway:right" (similarly left for<br>> <br>> > countries such as the UK that drive on the left side of the road). A quick<br>> <br>> > look on TagInfo reveals:<br>
> <br>> ><br>> <br>> > cycleway:right=* - 9190 occurrences<br>> <br>> > cycleway:left=* - 4329 occurrences<br>> <br>> ><br>> <br>> > A way has a 50/50% chance of being drawn in either direction so (unless<br>
> <br>> > people are reversing ways as they prefer right to left) then you would<br>> <br>> > expect the split to be closer.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Ok, so, you have a hypothesis that people are using the tag incorrectly.<br>
> <br>> <br>> <br>> 1) Could you find some examples to see if this true<br>> <br>> 2) What do you think should be done, if so?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Steve<br>> <br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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