[OSM-talk] access=destination valid only in one direction

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 15:22:59 BST 2009


Peter Childs wrote:
> 2009/7/10 Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz>:
> > Hallo.
> >
> > Is there a way how to map a street with access=destination valid just
> > only for one direction? In the reverse direction it is a standard drive
> > through street.
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/30764132
>
> The standard way to do this is with a second parallel way tagged
> accordingly, Like a dual carriageway.

That's also an ugly way to do it, as it's skewing reality quite a bit.

Better is to use some syntax like: access:forward=destination or 
access:backward=destination depending on the way direction.

And to add support for that in programs as well of course :-)

Ben





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