On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> wrote: >> > So this is not/should not be a mini_roundabout? It seems a little silly to >> > call it anything else, since the city just dug a hole in the center of the >> > existing intersection, built a circular curb, and planted a tree: >> > >> > http://g.co/maps/e2gsv >> > >> > What about this one? Also a full on roundabout? >> > >> > http://g.co/maps/d6n74 >> > >> > This looks more like a roundabout to me: >> > >> > http://g.co/maps/hnbp9 >> >> All three are roundabouts, yes. > All 3 are roundabouts, none of them a mini-roundabouts. > > The point of a mini-roundabout is that they can be driven over, hence > whilst cars are supposed to go around them and many are 'speed-hump > raised' to encourage this behaviour. Trucks can pass over them as many > are in places where a truck cannot get around otherwise. > > The first 2 should be mini-roundabouts, as a truck is likely to have > serious issues with them. I cannot imagine that tree will last too long. > > This is a mini-roundabout, which you can see is raised slightly > http://g.co/maps/hm49m > Actually its part of the magic roundabout, which is a roundabout you can > go around in either direction, and at each intersection there is a > mini-roundabout. On osm its here, http://osm.org/go/eumbs5ZIw-- > > Phil
But Nathan does have a point, mini-roundabouts are not a specifically good name, and the current docs will only make more people tag small roundabouts as highway=mini_roundabouts.. -- /emj _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging