I add lanes=2 (or other, as appropriate) even when they aren't striped. If striping is going to be a requirement, how "fresh" does it have to be? I see quite a few roads where you can tell that striping once existed because of some barely-visible remnants in spots....
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > Right, we're only counting striped lanes. > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Jack Burke <burke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But they *are* lanes. They just aren't striped. >> >> -jack >> -- >> Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology >> >> >> On May 8, 2018 3:24:08 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >>> >>> The tag you're looking for is width, not lanes. >>> >>> On Tue, May 8, 2018, 13:29 Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Most residential roads in my area are unstriped but are definitely >>>> built for two lanes of traffic (one in each direction). It seems perfectly >>>> reasonable to me to tag them with lanes=2 as they are designed to take two >>>> lanes of traffic. >>>> >>>> In fact, as part of some traffic calming measures a number of >>>> residential roads are having the lane striping removed. They claim that >>>> people tend to drive slower if there is no marking showing the boundary for >>>> oncoming traffic. I certainly will not be removing lanes=2 from those >>>> roads. >>>> >>>> >>>> > On May 8, 2018, at 11:20 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > On 5/8/2018 11:55 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >>>> >> Then with residential streets where there are no lanes, often >>>> lanes=2 would get tagged anyway despite nothing on the ground suggesting >>>> that was actually the case. >>>> > >>>> > I hadn't considered that unstriped roads shouldn't have lane >>>> tagging, but at least this doesn't cause bad effects for map data users. >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Talk-us mailing list >>>> > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>>> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-us mailing list >>>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>>> >>> >
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