Undocumented usage of side=*

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@SimonPoole

That prompted me to quickly check taginfo, which shows ~70’000 uses of the key of which only ~500 are for waiting aids and the rest seem to be used with traffic_sign objects, likely from traffic sign presets, which contain

<combo key="side" text="Side of the way"  values="right,left,both,up,down"  default="right"/>

which contrary to the direction key seems to be totally undocumented.

This is also related to a recent mass edit that has subsequently turned into a tagging proposal:

Large scale change of traffic_sign to traffic_sign:id

In the last weeks more than 25,000 traffic_sign tags in Spain got replaced by traffic_sign:id. Example: Node History: 6355477497 | OpenStreetMap The user doing these edits pointed me to a seven year old, never finished proposal by him: Proposal:Extended traffic signs tagging - OpenStreetMap Wiki Changeset: 145349201 | OpenStreetMap Am I missing some discussion about this topic? What is your opinion about these changes. IMHO this should be reverted until a detailed discussion has taken place…

[RFC] traffic signs national id and human readable values (traffic_sign=* and traffic_sign:id=*)

Hi! After a month of latest discussion on the Community forum, and after consulting Spanish and Catalan Community for comments , variations and corrections I ask for RFC for this proposal: Proposal:Extended traffic signs tagging - OpenStreetMap Wiki Happy for comments here or the proposal Wiki page. Please also see previous discussion on the Community Forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/large-scale-change-of-traffic-sign-to-traffic-sign-id Discussion in Spanish Discussion in Catal…