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I've run into this tag combo on traffic signals on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, NY: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/zvi I only see two other cities where this combo shows up in decent numbers -- Oklahoma City and Rosario, Argentina. Then there are a few pockets in India and scattered around Europe. Does Looking at the 4th Avenue example, it seems to be related to the fact that this road is divided and mapped as two parallel ways, each with ( |
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Could it be that the signal is mounted on a pole that's on one side of the road? Of course, if nobody has documented the tag in the wiki, then all we can do is guess what its intended meaning is. Based on the very few occurrences of highway=traffic_signals+side=left that I've been able to investigate, I believe that this is correct: mappers have used this tag to indicate that a traffic light is mounted on a pole on the left side of the intersection. Of course right is much more common than left, at least in drive-on-the-right-side countries. I'm not sure what the utility of this information is, but who am I to judge? It's also quite possible for the signal to be on the left for some traffic and on the right for traffic in a different direction, not sure how you'd tag that. According to the mapper, the signals along 4th Ave in Brooklyn were tagged side=right at the suggestion of a JOSM plugin tool, which seemed appropriate because it was being mapped as two opposite-direction ways ("dual carriageway"). Still haven't found any actual documentation on the tag itself, but I'm calling the mystery solved for now. Thanks, J
(13 Jun '18, 17:27)
jmapb
Finally found the In this proposal, the (I've added some "related terms" to that page so hopefully it'll be easier to find in the future.)
(19 Jun '18, 15:38)
jmapb
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You can always try to contact one of the contributors that added this tag to find out what it means
Thanks, yes, I've done that.