[OSM-talk] Re: One way streets

[openstreetmap at jammeh.co.uk]

Laurence Penney wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
>> In Germany, you're allowed to drive into the "wrong" direction on a
>> oneway street with a bicycle, but that needs permission with
>> additional traffic signs.  Something like that should probably also be
>> able to note in the database:)
> 
> True. And lots of traces are collected by bike, so any automatic 
> collation of nodes to ways will reflect bike directions. Some cyclists 
> have also been known to cycle the wrong way down one-way streets... 
> Walkers often do this too.

This is why I have been tagging my traces with the way I collected them, 
eg walking, car etc. Perhaps we should try to standardise on a set which 
can be used more generally. It's also useful when looking at other 
people's traces to try and see if they don't match mine because I was on 
the pavement and they were driving, or if it's just my GPS receiver 
being rubbish again.

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jammeh