Ross Scanlon wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:02:36 +1100
> Matt White <mattwh...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> I should probably know how to do this, but's what's the accepted 
>> technique for tagging the u-turn points and the like in a dual carriage 
>> way? I think they shoud probably be just little links between both ways, 
>> probably of the same highway type as the road they are linking, but they 
>> are nameless.
>>
>> A little ascii art to illustrate the problem:
>>
>>    |b      |c
>>    |       |
>>    |   a   |
>>    |-------|
>>    |       |
>>    |       |
>>    |       |
>>    |       |
>>
>> So b and c are the parallel ways, and a is the linker road.
>>
>> Mostly, I think it's done making the linker bit either tagged as 
>> primary_link, secondary_link or just tertiary/residential.
>>
>> Now we have some decent hi-res imagery courtesy of nearmap, it's a lot 
>> easier to locate these linker ways
>>
>> Matt
>>     
>
>
> Are there other roads that join where a meets b and/or c?
>
> If so then should be tagged with the road that joins there, see here:
>
> Possibly highway=service if it's not for general access, ie emergency 
> services only.
>
> Otherwise the same as b and c are tagged.
>
>   
That's pretty much what I figured and what I've been doing (there's no 
other roads - ie: a isn't part on another road)

Matt

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