[Tagging] man_made=pipeline - is onewayness implied?

nounours77 kuessemondtaeglich at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 05:35:09 UTC 2014


Dear Bryan,

> Better use an own tag like flow_direction=forward/backward/both/none or
> similar. This way we will cover all three cases mentioned below.

+1

Making "oneway=yes" as a default and make it automatically into the direction of flow is not a good solution:

* someone might not know the direction of flow, so just chooses a arbitrary direction of the way, which might be opposite to the direction of flow. If you have a default like this, you never now if the flow direction known or not.
* as already mentioned, more and more gas pipeline are equipped to work "reverse-flow". So at least for gas, flow_direction=both will be more and more common.

nounours


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