[OSM-talk] Cycleways and Access tags: Left, Right, Forward, Backward?

[rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com]

It has been pointed out that some of these may be due to one-way roads (and  
as there are more countries that drive on the right, this would cause a  
slight bias), however in these cases the :right suffix is not always needed.

I can have a look for incorrect examples, but irrespective of whether I  
find any, I believe that the wiki page needs updating to better explain  
right/left. I am happy to have a go at doing this however as the lane  
enthusiasts and the 'access' page uses forward / backward instead I  
wondered whether there was any intention or hope to switch at some point in  
the future to bring consistency.

Cheers,
Rob

ps I'm not saying we should change, just wanted to open a discussion to  
allow others to voice their opinion before I add more details to the wiki  
page. :-)



On , Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM, rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > My concern with right / left is that some may think "ok we drive on the

> > right side of the road so it must be cycleway:right" (similarly left for

> > countries such as the UK that drive on the left side of the road). A  
> quick

> > look on TagInfo reveals:

> >

> > cycleway:right=* - 9190 occurrences

> > cycleway:left=* - 4329 occurrences

> >

> > A way has a 50/50% chance of being drawn in either direction so (unless

> > people are reversing ways as they prefer right to left) then you would

> > expect the split to be closer.



> Ok, so, you have a hypothesis that people are using the tag incorrectly.



> 1) Could you find some examples to see if this true

> 2) What do you think should be done, if so?



> Steve


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