Concerning diameter/radius. What if the mini-roundabout isn't round?

2012/6/6 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>:
> Diameter is more universally understood by the layman than radius. Radius is
> normally only used by engineers, scientists and mathematicians.
>
> Plus it keeps us from having to map fractions.
>
> Phil
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> On 06/06/2012 13:07 Andrew Errington wrote:
>
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:32:59 Colin Smale wrote:
>> On 06/06/2012 09:13, Martin Vonwald wrote:
>> > If you want to specify the dimension of the mini-roundabout I think it
>> > would be sufficient to specify the width of the approaching roads.
>> >
>> > Martin
>>
>> How about diameter=15 on the mini-roundabout node? This is factually
>> correct, verifiable on the ground and (IMHO) non-controversial; routing
>> would not be affected (no need to route over areas) and renderers can
>> draw a bigger blob. Problem solved, simples.
>
> If we do this I would really love to see the tag as radius=* instead of
> diameter=*.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andrew
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