Can I draw some attention to this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Divided_road
I was going to propose exactly the same thing, pretty much. Maybe I'd quibble with some of the naming. I find the current practice of duplicating minor roads when there is a median strip pretty unsatisfactory. Even disregarding the effort, the end result never renders well: usually the street name is written twice, the one-way arrows get messy etc. So it seems to me for minor roads with median strips it would be much better to map them as a single way, marked "divider=physical" (in this proposal). It also corresponds better to how we think of them. Major roads and freeways probably call for mapping as two distinct ways, because they tend to have more complex junctions that only affect one of the lanes. Thoughts? Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
