[OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Lars Aronsson wrote:
| 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.

I think it may be better to indicate the direction of the busses at the
stop than the side of the road that the stop is on. So on a south-west,
north-east road, both north and east would mean the busses travel in the
direction of the way (and in the UK, the stop is on the left hand side
of the way).


J.D. Schmidt wrote:
| It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of the
| road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world.

Yes it does, because the side of the road determines which direction the
busses go, which is a pretty important piece of information.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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