[OSM-talk] Highway = Motorway automatically oneway ?

[Matthias Julius]

"Abigail Brady" <morwen at evilmagic.org> writes:

> On 10/14/07, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> I know some parts in the alps (italy or switzerland) where motorways
>> don't have strictly seperated lanes for both directions, so the oneway
>> tag is not the right choice here AFAI understand this tag.
>>
>
> Then these bits should be tagged oneway=no.  The default for a property
> should be the value it is most of the time, no?

The default for a property should be what it is defined to be. If
every user of the data has to make his own assumptions what the
default values are that would be a huge mess, IMHO.

If Map_Features says a roundabout implies oneway=yes then everyone
knows what to assume. And since Map_Features does not say that for
motorways I always add oneway=yes to them.

Matthias