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oneway=reversible is probably confusing in preset list #4970

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SK53 opened this issue Apr 6, 2018 · 2 comments
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oneway=reversible is probably confusing in preset list #4970

SK53 opened this issue Apr 6, 2018 · 2 comments
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SK53 commented Apr 6, 2018

Anecdotally I, and others, have noticed an uptick in the use of oneway=reversible by new contributors. In the main they seem to believe that it is a synonym for twoway operation.

I would suggest that reversible & alternate are sufficiently uncommon occurrences to warrant not being directly supported in the iD presets if this causes confusion.

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Note that although the reversible/alternate tags could be used on narrow 1-lane roads and bridges where traffic flow is controlled by signals this does not appear to be the general practice (at least in the UK 1 instance).

Alternative approaches to improving clarity would be to describe the implicit (no oneway tag) and explicit (oneway=no) options as two way rather than negations of oneway.

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bhousel commented Apr 6, 2018

Yes, I've seen a few too.. I think it's important to support these tags, but maybe we should change it so that the user can only enter them via the tag editor (not just toggling the checkbox).

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SK53 commented Apr 6, 2018

I think that is pretty close to what I had in mind but failed to express very clearly.

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