On 11 May 2018 08:58:16 BST, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >If you were not trying to tag this situation, but explain it to your >non-OSM friends, would you say that there are 2 lanes in that picture >? >At least in Belgium a lane is defined by having some white markings on >the ground. If there are no markings, there is only 1 lane. I do not >know how it is defined in other countries. From what Thorsen wrote in >this thread, I think it's the same in Australia. > Same in the UK.
Roads with a width less than 4.5m do not have lane markings. I live in a rural area where there are a lot of such roads and tag these using the width tag. I would only use lanes if there are painted lanes on the road. Phil (trigpoint) >m. > >On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer ><dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> sent from a phone >> >> On 11. May 2018, at 05:49, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's just historically that "lanes" (the tag alone) is only for >motorised >> traffic. >> >> >> >> I agree with Paul, it has always bothered me to have this >inconsistency in >> the definitions. >> >> What would you say about unsigned lanes? This is/was a frequent >situation in >> Rome, where there are basically huge areas of asphalt (2-4 lanes) >without >> lane markings, or only with lane markings before traffic lights (and >people >> not respecting them oftentimes). In recent years they have begun to >remove >> the ambiguity by painting more lanes and adding more “channeling” >> infrastructure like traffic islands and guards rails, but you can >still find >> a lot of “wild” situations. Would you agree it is ok to estimate a >number in >> the absence of markings, or would you prefer something like width=12 >> lanes=no (or maybe 1)? >> >> e.g. >> >https://www.instantstreetview.com/@41.888713,12.480457,180.97h,-11.28p,1.54z >> >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > >_______________________________________________ >Tagging mailing list >Tagging@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
