[OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

[Matthias Julius]

David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> writes:

> Given the existing use of psv=opposite_lane I'll go with that for now. 
> (I don't think it does clash with psv=other things BTW).

I didn't mean to say that it clashes with the existing use of the psv
tag, but it would be inconsistent with the way cycle lanes are
handled.  There, different tags are used (cycleway and bicycle).

> psv rather than bus is less than obvious for non-English speakers.

You can probably extend that to non-UK people in general (don't know
about Ireland).  I have never heard that term in the US for example.
I know what a bus is, but I didn't know about PSV until a few days
ago.  The same goes for HGV.  So at least to me it is a lot less
intuitive.

> Changing to bus=opposite_lane is merely linguistic tinkering, though
> I know how much that excites people on this list.

Well, it's a bit more than that, see above.  I think there is a
benefit in having a more intuitive tagging scheme.

Matthias