I'm reading the law again and it's a little confusing. It says "you can't turn left on ways with traffic lights". I'm discussing about this in the Argentinian OSM forum.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Diego, > > Are left turns prohibited for the majority of junctions where two > residential roads cross each other ? Are left turns prohibited even at the > majority of residential T junctions ? > > I know it may look like a lot of work adding all the no_left_turns, but it's > the right way. > > Having different defaults for each country leads to many problems: > 1. At a T junction, something that looks a left turn to some may look like a > straight on to others. > 2. Writing the code is non trivial and it affects routing engines, relation > editors, validators and even some renderers. > 3. Tourists who map in Argentina may not do the right thing. > > Regards, > Nic > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Diego Woitasen <di...@woitasen.com.ar> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> In Argentina we have a general rule. If you are driving in a two way >> highway (residential, primary, secondary, etc) you can't turn left. >> You can do it only if there is a sign and/or traffic light with the >> turn left row. We are discussing in the Argentina forum about if it's >> make sense to map the no_turn_left restriction on every crossing road >> or not. I think that we should drive the exception to the rule, the >> routing software should apply the default restriction. >> >> What are you doing in the other countries? >> >> Regards, >> Diego >> >> -- >> Diego Woitasen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Diego Woitasen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk