Yes I started to understand that this after I sent my mails..

2012/5/17 Martin Vonwald (Imagic) <imagic....@gmail.com>:
> Look at the second column for the suggested tagging. The wording "turning 
> circle" is misleading here and does NOT refer to turning_circle; it should 
> read turning place. But I will not do any more wiki-edits unless NE2 is 
> banned so I can not fix this.
>
> Nonetheless thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Am 17.05.2012 um 22:42 schrieb Tobias Johansson <t...@mensa.se>:
>
>> On the page you referensed to. in the table with pictures it says "A
>> round place with a traversable island in the middle, but this is
>> neither a mini-roundabout nor a roundabout, but instead a turning
>> circle, which allows large vehicles to turn around. "
>>
>> 2012/5/17 Martin Vonwald (Imagic) <imagic....@gmail.com>:
>>> But this is exactly the definition of turning_place: a widening of the road 
>>> without any island.
>>>
>>> Am 17.05.2012 um 22:23 schrieb Tobias Johansson <t...@mensa.se>:
>>>
>>>> There is one thing. In Sweden we have something called "Vändplats"
>>>> http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/Vag/Vagmarken/Forbudsmarken/Vandplats/
>>>> roughly translated "turnaroundplace" usally in sweden we have used
>>>> highway=turning_circle for this.
>>>> According to this definition almost no "vändplats" would be
>>>> turning_circles because:
>>>> They are almost never circular (except new ones beeing built today).
>>>> And there is no island in the middle.
>>>> In many cases they ar more like a widening of the road so its possible
>>>> to make a three-point-turn.
>>>>
>>>> I dont think anyone i sweden will change how we map this in Sweden
>>>> because of this definition. But how do you guys feel about this?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards Thod
>>>>
>>>> 2012/5/17 Martin Vonwald <imagic....@gmail.com>:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I updated now the english article:
>>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout
>>>>> Translations will follow in the next days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks to everyone who took part in the discussion and provided
>>>>> valuable feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stay tuned - I'll come back to you for the next article soon ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Martin
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