Why only `hov=designated` and not all access tags, such as `hov:yes`,
`hov=no` and so on? From the Wiki:
- designated: The way is designated to high occupancy vehicles.
- yes: High occupancy vehicles are allowed. This by itself does not imply that other vehicles are restricted from using the way.
- no: High occupancy vehicles are not allowed on the way. This by itself does not imply that other vehicle types are allowed to use it.
The primary use-case is conditionally filtering ways such as:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/11198593#map=19/37.82571/-122.30521&layers=D
In addition there is a notion of HOV lanes for lane handling:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov#hov:lanes.3D.2A
This changeset does not handle lanes at all, only designated HOV ways.
For HOV lane support, a logic similar to the lane access handling needs
to be implemented. This needs to go hand in hand with the existing lane
handling introduced in:
7d076e9344
References:
- #2711
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov#Values