[Tagging] Do we still need cycleway=opposite_lane? (Was: Do we still need cycleway=opposite?)

Markus selfishseahorse at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 08:23:14 UTC 2019


On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 09:14, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>
>> Mar 19, 2019, 8:52 AM by selfishseahorse at gmail.com:
>>
>> By the way: aren't all contraflow cycle lanes located on the left side
>> in countries with right-hand traffic or on the right side in countries
>> with left-hand traffic? If so, cycleway*=opposite_lane could simply be
>> replaced by cycleway:*=lane, as the direction of the cycle lane is
>> already implied by oneway:bicycle=no – thus no need for
>> cycleway:*:oneway=-1.
>
> There are some exceptions. Usually belonging in
> "the worst bicycle infrastructure in region X" but
> it sometimes exists.

Those exceptions could be tagged
cycleway:[left|right]:direction=[forward|backward|both].



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