To further illustrate what Simon is talking about, check out this page: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section2.7.4.shtml
Also known as climbing lanes. Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new comer working in/on Southern Alberta. Just getting to grips with > the range of tags available, and have a question about passing/slow lanes. > > By passing lane, I mean a section of non-segregated road which has an > additional lane in one direction. This is often on an up-hill section > where larger traffic would slow, however this is not always the case. Here > they have built a series of passing lanes on Highway 3 (Crowsnest Pass to > Lethbridge) instead of building segregated lanes. > > The same situation can occur where you have turn left/right turn lanes at > junctions, which is very common here. > > > The only suggestion I had was to set lanes to '1+2', which would mean 1 > lane in the forward direction (of the way) and 2 in the reverse direction. > > If by convention the user was to use the 'normal' width as the first > parameter then renderers which did not support this extra feature would be > able to easy parse out the data. This obviously means sections of road > might have the opposite way direction, but I don't think that matters. > > It would also require some fine tuning of which lane merged back into the > normal flow, ie. did the 1st or 2nd lane have to merge? > > Comments? > > Cheers, > Mungewell. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
