[OSM-talk] opencyclemap and car directions

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 14:25:11 GMT 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Mann wrote:
>> If there's a lane in the "wrong" direction, that'll be marked (as being on
>> both sides). If there's a separate track adjacent to the road, that'll be
>> marked. But cycle tracks don't get marked if they are attached to the road
>> (so cycleway=track and cycleway=opposite don't get marked). If there's no
>> lane marked (eg the zillions of oneway exceptions in Belgium that have
>> appeared in the last few years) then it probably needs to be tagged
>> oneway:bicycle=no, but that won't show up either (AFAIK).
>
> bicycle:oneway=no is used much more in Belgium (and the whole planet) -- about
> ten times more often. Likewise, also moped_A:oneway=no is used in Belgium
> because light mopeds are sometimes allowed to drive in the opposite direction
> as well (therefore cycleway=opposite isn't sufficient here), although there's
> no advise from the government to the municipalities to allow it if possible.

Good to know - I only considered the cycleway=opposite/opposite_lane.
I'll add the bicycle:oneway=no at the same time.

Cheers,
Andy




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