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 : > > 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? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > 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 > sparsely-populated some of the northern regions of Canada are, I would not be > surprised to find some one-lane roads, and some extensive areas with no roads > at all. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. > Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." > Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
