[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sent: 13 March 2008 5:27 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes? > > >> To annotate the physical: >> Break the way at the start and end of each passing section and tag with >> lanes=2 for the normal sections (assuming its normally a two lane >> undivided >> highway) and lanes=3 where the way includes the passing lane. >> > >My understanding is (was?) that the lane tag indicated how many lanes >there were in each direction, so '1' would indicate a road which was 2 >lanes, 1 in each direction. > >The definitive answer is rather blank on the matter: >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key:lanes&action=edit >
That needed fixing then - Done. Because when originally conceived it was always intended to apply to the number of physical lanes on the way. Cheers Andy >> >>> >>>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? >>> >> >> Do we really care? > >It might help with routing instructions such as 'keep right' prior to a >lane suddenly being coned off (found a few of these in France). > >It's all about the attention to detail you know... ;-) > >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
