[Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only

[Gregory Williams]

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> From: talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
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> Sent: 30 September 2008 18:49
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> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Cycle lane in one direction only
> 
> 2008/9/30 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) <andrewc-email-
> lists at piffle.org>:
> 
> > Suggestions of different things to use in place of :left and :right
> > would be very welcome. I'd suggest keeping it defined in terms that
> > allow rendering without foreknowledge of which side of the road one
> > cycles/drives in a particular country.
> 
> Can't we use the direction of the way being tagged? E.g.
> cycleway:withway=<any permissible value for cycleway>
> cycleway:againstway=<any permissible value for cycleway>
> 
> If neither withway/againstway are given, assume both ways as default

If you did that then you'd need to know which side of the road you cycle
on in order to be able to render a lane on the correct side.