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Use oneway:bicycle if available #17
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When a cyclist is ignoring a "oneway" tag and gets overtaken by a motorized vehicle as evidenced by a recorded overtaking event, he certainly wasn't the only one to ignore it... But my guess would be that often these events are evidence of close passages of head-on traffic as is common in oneway streets and a cyclist pressing the button to record that the passage felt too close to be comfy. |
Yeah but that is contradicting the meaning of the button, i.e. "passed on the left, from behind (while moving)", which is the kind-of definition we've been using until now. We don't record oncoming traffic, and we also don't decide whether to press or not to press the button based on how safe the overtaking event felt, but we record all events that occur. As I said, we should not assume all bikers to travel down the oneway street in forward direction, as we're also able to do statistics that are not about overtaking events on the data:
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The FACE script now interprets both Also, now the What remains open is how to handle odd situations where bicycle and/or cars ignore unidirectional restrictions. |
The annotation process looks at the
oneway
tag to determine if a road is available in one direction only, mapping all travel directions to the same segment.There is also the tag
oneway:bicycle
to tag roads that are oneway for cars, and bidirectional for bikes. We should use that, if available, to ignoreoneway
tags. See: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway:bicycleWe might also want to consider not caring at all about those tags, as bikers tend to ignore oneway streets anyway, or there might be a dedicated bike lane in reverse direction. Either way, there are probably few overtaking events in the reverse direction (as cars aren't travelling there), but for biker's road usage statistics, this is a valuable information to have and we should not discard it, or assume travel in the "forward" direction even if GPS indicates the reverse.
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