[OSM-dev] Directionality of lanes

[Dietrich Opitz]

Hello

I have a question about official tags for the diretionality of lanes.

    You have  left-hand traffic (LHT) in countries like Japan, Australia, England
    and RHT, right-hand traffic in other countries.

The tag "lht_ref" seems to indicate it, but I am not sure which is the right value.
There is an other tag "rht_ref" as well, so I am confused.

Shouldn't it be a tag like:

name: traffic_direction 
value:   lht / rht / open

The tag "direction" seems to be used for other purposes.


With regards

Dietrich

[rupert THURNER]

Just out of interest, how does navigation software get the information? If a road is one way it has a direction attached, and the general rule it should get from a different site?

rupert

Am 28.03.2012 09:55 schrieb "Peter Körner" <osm-...@mazdermind.de>:

Am 27.03.2012 12:14, schrieb Dietrich Opitz:

Hello

Thank you for the information. I didn't wanted to add the obivous to the
database.
I just missed the default settings per country and was wondering how to
get this type of information from the database.

I don't think you can get it out of the osm-database as it isn't something that belongs to osm. Better build a custom database (or better: list) of it or query wikipedia or some other ressource.

Not every information has to be stored in the osm database.

Peter


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