--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Blaž Lorger <blaz.lor...@triera.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately lanes only specifies number of lanes. In
> general every road that
> is not one way has at least 2 lanes, even if it is narrow,
> say 3.5 meters.
Even one way roads can have multiple lanes. Like dual carriage ways :)
> Some good practices
> on how to accurately estimate road width could also came
> handy.
I feel you could get road widths accurately enough based simply on the number
of lanes and the type of highway.
For example, a residential road with 2 lanes, one in each direction is usually
about 6-7m wide.
Motorways are usually the numbers of lanes times 3m + 3m each side of the road
way to allow for break downs, or maybe you could even have lanes=*
breakdown_lanes=* to make this more accurate, but in any case a 3 lane motorway
will be about 15m wide (3 * 3 + 3 + 3).
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