Hi Darrin, Over the past few years, there is no doubt in my mind that the consensus on the Australian mailing list, and in practice in Australia, has been to use mini-roundabouts to indicate the concrete structure within the width of the road. You can (of course) reasonably disagree with this, but people mapping this way are doing it because they think that it is the best respresentation - and not because of any form of "laziness".
You wrote: > No, but I'm sure there's NO roundabouts in the rest of the world like a > mini-roundabout by the 'Australian' definition, rather a myopic view (In > reality I suspect they are in fact the most common type of all, since > they're cheap). No, I don't think so. Australian style roundabouts aren't at all common in the UK or the USA. In the UK just about all the roundabouts are larger, causing you to turn into the roundabout. Its a separate road construction, and not a bit of concrete in the middle of the road. In the USA, I can honestly say I have never seen one. They may exist, but they must be rare. They are more equivalent to a 4-way stop in North America, then they are to a UK roundabout IMO. > If we follow this reasoning the nothing we put in OSM > need follow the front page if we don't feel like it and suddenly OSM > looks a bit useless because each person's local area means different > things. This discussion has been had many times before. Possibly there is more than one way of finding the best way and achieving consensus than a poorly supported voting process. Note that the renderer developers, in reality, hold more sway than any amount of map features votes. There are lots of Australian and state features which are mapped onto UK based map features which they were never intended for. NSW freeways, tertiary, unclassified, etc, are not Australian definitions. They have to be mapped onto Australian features. There is nothing wrong with doing this to make the most representative Australian map. Ian. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
