[OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

Lars Aronsson lars at aronsson.se
Wed Mar 26 08:21:58 GMT 2008


Alex Mauer wrote:

> It also has the problem that ways can easily get reversed, and 
> then the left/right meanings are backwards.

A bus stop is an attribute on a node (highway=bus_stop) in the 
middle of a way.  If I want to indicate that this bus stop is on 
one side of the street, left and right don't matter much, since 
there can be two ways both pointing towards the node.  It would be 
better to use the words north, east, west or south.  If the way 
goes from south-west to north-east, then "north" and "west" both 
mean the left side of that way.


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