[Tagging] default value for "oneway"

Tom Pfeifer t.pfeifer at computer.org
Thu Aug 28 13:53:03 UTC 2014


Xavier Noria wrote, on 2014-08-28 15:45:


> 2) In cities and towns where two-way streets are exceptional like
> Barcelona or Madrid, are people expected to tag them "no"? The
> motivation for this question is that there seems to be the convention
> not to tag them, and therefore you cannot tell the confirmed ones from
> the untagged ones.

As Peter pointed out, oneway=yes (or in the exeptional case of oneway
against the vector of the OSM way, oneway=-1 ) is mandatory if the
road is a oneway, for most categories.

oneway=no can help other mappers to show it has been checked in areas
of high oneway density. Like a concise note.

Tom




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