Bruce Cowan wrote: >Sent: 13 March 2008 2:28 AM >To: DavidD >Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to use lanes= for two way single track roads? > >On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:09 +0000, DavidD wrote: >> According to map features the value for the lanes key should be. >> >> "Number of travel lanes in each (or only permitted) direction" >> >> I've been tagging to this definition. >> >> "Number of travel lanes on the way" >> >> This makes more sense to me because you can tag two way single lane >> roads with lanes = 1. The map features definition on the other hand >> doesn't give an obvious way to tag these roads. lanes = 0.5 perhaps. >> >> I didn't pick up the lanes tag from map features but some other wiki >> page. I'm sure the wiki page defined the lanes key similarly to my >> definition. Unfortunately I know can't find that wiki page to check. >> >> Was the lanes tag added to map features wrongly? > >While thinking about the many roads up here that are single tracked, >it'd be quite useful to be able to map them properly. The result was >passing places [0]. I am under the impression that lanes=1 means 1 lane >each way, but this makes these roads impossible. I'd quite like another >tag, such as narrow=true (or something non-boolean) which would mean the >lanes number is number of lanes overall as opposed to in either >direction.
This why the original intention was that lanes was equal to the number of running lanes on the physical way. In your case it would be lanes=1 except (if you like) at passing places where lanes=2. Since a passing place is a very short length normally it would be simpler to tag a node with lanes=2 at each passing place. Isn't that the simplest method and easily understandable in the data? Cheers Andy > >[0]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Passing_places >-- >Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
