On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:21:05 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:57:37 -0700 (PDT), wsnell01 wrote:

http://www.ascom-standards.org/Help/...deOfPier.ht m

It remains a regular topic of discussion on the ASCOM forum because of
the problems involved in identifying and utilizing side-of-pier
information.

The first line of the remarks is relevant to davoid's confusion:

"For historical reasons, this property's name does not reflect its true meaning."