[OSM-talk] How to tag oneway exceptions?

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 20:44:54 BST 2009


On Sunday 26 April 2009, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> Renaud MICHEL schrieb:
> > I didn't find an answer in the wiki, how should I tag roads that
> > are one way for motorized vehicles but two way for bicycle?
>
> The documented and established way to do so is
> oneway=yes + cycleway=opposite,
> see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway
>
> The proposal "Conditions for access tags" allows to alternatively use
> oneway=yes + oneway:bicycle=no
> which is a bit more flexible because it is not limited to bicycles,
> see
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Conditions_for_a
>ccess_tags

But bicycle:oneway=no is much more logical of course since you're 
defining the access rights of bicycles...

The xxx:oneway looks to be used a lot more often than oneway:xxx as well 
in current data (although I'm probably responsible for most of 
those :-) )

Ben




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