Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 12/29/2014 04:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I rolled the map-roulette wheel, and found a series of highways in Canada marked with lanes=-1, all part of a CANVEC import. I see 17,943 uses of this value: it's less popular than 5 lanes but more popular than 6. What does it mean, if anything?

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-30 Thread Janko Mihelić
2014-12-30 22:16 GMT+01:00 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com: It may well mean what it says, a one-lane road. Some rural areas in the USA still have one-lane roads, with occasional wider spots where one vehicle can pause to allow a vehicle going the other direction to pass by. Given how

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-30 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 12/30/2014 03:16 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: On 12/29/2014 04:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I rolled the map-roulette wheel, and found a series of highways in Canada marked with lanes=-1, all part of a CANVEC import. I see 17,943 uses of this value: it's less popular than 5 lanes but more

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-30 Thread Guillaume Pratte
There are many of these lanes=-1 in the Canvec import in Quebec. I would assume they mean ‘Unknown’. In my opinion we could just delete them all (at least in Quebec) since they bring no pertinent information. Guillaume Le 2014-12-30 à 16:16, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com a écrit :

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-30 Thread Martin Vonwald
2014-12-30 22:36 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com: 2014-12-30 22:16 GMT+01:00 John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com: It may well mean what it says, a one-lane road. Some rural areas in the USA still have one-lane roads, with occasional wider spots where one vehicle can pause to

[Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
I rolled the map-roulette wheel, and found a series of highways in Canada marked with lanes=-1, all part of a CANVEC import. I see 17,943 uses of this value: it's less popular than 5 lanes but more popular than 6. What does it mean, if anything? ___

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-29 Thread Janko Mihelić
Maybe CANVEC uses it instead of unknown? 2014-12-29 11:16 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: I rolled the map-roulette wheel, and found a series of highways in Canada marked with lanes=-1, all part of a CANVEC import. I see 17,943 uses of this value: it's less popular than 5 lanes

Re: [Tagging] lanes=-1 especially in Canada

2014-12-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
The lanes -1 appear all over the world, just concentrated in one Canadian province. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging