Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-15 Thread bluemm1975-osm
--- On Sat, 13/12/08, Darrin Smith wrote: > I'm totally on your wavelength with respect to the making our usage > match the worlds usage, and making a new tag when we have something > different, and I get the impression a couple of others on here have > similar opinions in a general sense. > > Ho

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-15 Thread Darrin Smith
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:22:05 -0800 (PST) bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: > > So after realising this I can't actually stand in support of > > junction=roundabout on a point (or some other similar proposal) as a > > permanent fixture, but would fully support it as a 'temporary' tag > > to indicate

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-15 Thread Darrin Smith
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:08:54 +1100 Ian Sergeant wrote: > + When you cross this kind of roundabout when cycling, or with a > learner driver, you don't have to worry about the characteristics of > the road you are crossing (since you never turn into the traffic of > the cross road, you just cross t

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-15 Thread Matt White
bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: > I thought the same when I first started mapping, as I wanted to show > centre & pedestrian islands like in the Melways. But the wiki is very > specific http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:junction%3Droundabout > It says that normal pedestrian islands aren't

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Couter
Sean <4ey0ll...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > I never said I was mapping for a particular program or device. Garmin > was just an example. I'm mapping for all programs and devices. As all > programs or devices can render a loop way it just makes more since to > do it that way. I don't know of an