[Tagging] hydrants

[Rich]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:55:03PM +0200, bkil wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:27 PM OSMDoudou
> <19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238eee at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe leverage the existing direction tag (fire_hydrant:opening:direction) ?
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:direction
> >
> That sounds like a reasonable idea - I see that it is widely used.
> Although it is unfortunate how much bulk it adds.
> 
> Instead of
> fire_hydrant:opening=cw
> fire_hydrant:opening=ccw
> 
> You need to type:
> fire_hydrant:opening:direction=clockwise
> fire_hydrant:opening:direction=anticlockwise
> 
> Also, because the primary usage for `direction` usually relates to
> heading, you could interpret the tag as an answer to the question "in
> what direction does the opening of the fire hydrant face"?

What about using the standard engineering terms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_thread#Handedness

fire_hydrant:handedness=right
fire_hydrant:handedness=left