[Tagging] Wiki article about key "hov"

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 10:34:14 UTC 2013


2013/3/28 Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> I just stumbled upon the article of the key hov [1]. It says "yes
> (also 'designated') High occupancy, but no minimum requirement
> specified". In my opinion this is misleading. The tag hov=yes should -
> like other access restrictions - mean that HOVs are allowed there. The
> tag hov=designated should mean that the road/lane is a designated HOV
> road/lane. So yes and designated have two different meanings.
>
> I'm also missing the information that a simple hov=2 does not mean
> that vehicles with less than two occupants are forbidden; we would
> need a vehicle=no + hov=2 for this.
>
> Do we agree on this?


+1

cheers,
Martin



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