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driving_side
Description
Defines which side of the road vehicles must legally use.
Group:
highways
Used on these
elements
Useful combination
lanes
=*
Status:
in use
driving_side
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info
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VN
overpass-turbo
QLever
Postpass via overpass-turbo
OSM Tag History
For tagging the driving side in all bidirectional traffic.
Add to the country relation to describe the global rule.
And on ways
only
when describing an exception.
Contents
How to map
Software support
Examples
3.1
On a highway
3.2
On countries
Pictures and signs
See also
How to map
Add
driving_side
left/right
to the country's relation or to the highway.
Only add it to a highway when it's driving side is an exception to the general rule (and check that the general rule is tagged in your country relation).
If the highway's opposite lanes have a physical barrier between them (i.e. they are represented as parallel ways on OSM), then
driving_side
=*
should not be used.
Software support
This key is taken into consideration when rendering streets with
OSM2World
OSRM
Valhalla
, and the
Mapbox Directions API
outputs the driving side on each step based on known country defaults, which can be explicitly overridden using this tag. Some guidance instructions differ based on the driving side. The
Mapbox Navigation SDK
uses the driving side to accurately depict roundabout and U-turn lane icons.
Examples
On a highway
This access road to a parking lot
could not accomodate card readers between the two lanes. To keep them accessible from drivers' windows, traffic was reversed from the usual right-side driving in Czechia.
A highway with
driving_side
left
in
Madeira
(in which right is the normal driving side)
On countries
1.
admin_level
name
United Kingdom
driving_side
left
2.
admin_level
name
Polska
Poland
driving_side
right
3.
admin_level
name
Brasil
Brazil
driving_side
right
Pictures and signs
See also
For country specific driving side information see
Left- and right-hand traffic
on Wikipedia
Proposal for lanes with alternating driving direction
Related terms
: ‹
rule of the road
› ‹
left-hand traffic
› ‹
right-hand drive
Retrieved from "
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Key descriptions for group "highways"
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