Tag:busway=opposite_lane
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| Description |
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Using this tag is discouraged, use oneway:bus and regular lanes:bus / bus:lanes tags instead. |
| Group: highways |
| Used on these elements |
| Status: deprecated |
| Tools for this tag |
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Was used on one-way roads which have a bus lane only in the opposite direction to the main traffic flow. It's deprecated in favour of oneway:bus=* and regular bus lane tagging.
The general tagging of contraflow bus lanes is oneway:bus=no and lanes:bus:backward=* (which counts the total amount of bus lanes in the opposite direction) or bus:lanes:backward=* (specifies access in the backward direction).
Historically, one would also use busway:<side>=lane in combination with busway:side:oneway=-1 (e.g. busway:left=lane + busway:left:oneway=-1) but that has been deprecated with busway=.
Deprecation follow-up
Deprecation vote
This tag has been formally deprecated by a community vote on 2024-11-15.
Transition stats
- Use history of the
busway=tag: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/busway/opposite_lane - Use history of
busway=andoneway:bus=*tags: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/busway/opposite_lane&***/oneway:bus/*/
Tasks
Please help the community to transition from busway= to oneway:bus=no with the following tasks:
Documentation
| Task | English | Every other language | Comment |
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Update busway= wiki page
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no | no | |
Update oneway:bus=* wiki page
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no | no | |
| Update the deprecated features page | no | N/A | |
Update every other mentioning the busway= tag (listed here) excluding users & discussion pages
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no | no | |
| Update deprecated busway=opposite_lane data item | no | N/A | |
| Update Changelog | no | N/A | |
Update bus lanes to only refer to oneway:bus=no with lanes:bus=* or bus:lanes=*
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no | N/A | |
| [Please add any documentation that might be relevant] | N/A | N/A | |
| How to use this table? | |||
Tools
See https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/busway=opposite_lane#projects for more details about the tools using this tag.
| Mission | Task | busway= tag deprecated
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oneway:bus=* tag supported
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URL of the request | Comment |
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| For every editorː change preset | Update JOSM preset | no | N/A | Please replace this cell with the specific URL of the request made on https://josm.openstreetmap.de/report | |
| Update iD preset | no | N/A | Please replace this cell with the specific URL of the request made on https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues | ||
| Update Vespucci preset | no | N/A | Please replace this cell with the specific URL of the request made on https://github.com/simonpoole/beautified-JOSM-preset | ||
| For every Q/A toolsː suggest to enforce the proposal | Create a JOSM/Validator preset | no | N/A | Please replace this cell with the specific URL of the request made | |
| Other toolsː suggest to enforce the proposal | Update Organic Maps preset | Unknown | N/A | Please replace this cell with the specific URL of the request made on https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues | |
| Osmose | Unkown | N/A | Unkown | N/A | |
| MapRoulette | Unkown | N/A | Unkown | N/A | |
| MapComplete | Unkown | N/A | Unkown | N/A | |
| Public Transport Network Analysis | Unkown | N/A | Unkown | N/A | |
| [Please add any editor, tool, search engine, router, render or other project that might be relevant] | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Render
See https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/busway=opposite_lane#projects to find out which renders are using this tag.
| Mission | Task | busway= tag deprecated
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oneway:bus=* tag supported
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URL of the request | Comment |
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| [Please add any render that might be relevant] | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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