Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-04 13:41, Alan Millar wrote: How are people using the "lanes" tag on motorways? Do you count the on/off ramps that come and go? Generally, no. On a lot of the freeways near me, they have two main driving lanes on each direction, so I set it up as a dual carriage way with one-way

Re: [Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-04 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/4 Alan Millar : > How are people using the "lanes" tag on motorways?  Do you count the on/off > ramps that come and go? > On a lot of the freeways near me, they have two main driving lanes on each > direction, so I set it up as a dual carriage way with one-way on each side, > and mark each s

[Tagging] Counting lanes: include merging or turn lanes?

2010-07-04 Thread Alan Millar
How are people using the "lanes" tag on motorways? Do you count the on/off ramps that come and go? On a lot of the freeways near me, they have two main driving lanes on each direction, so I set it up as a dual carriage way with one-way on each side, and mark each side as lanes=2. The que

Re: [Tagging] Billboards and other kinds of advert

2010-07-04 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/7/4 y...@o2.pl : > 2010/7/3 Tobias Knerr : >> The information key is currently only defined as a subkey for >> tourism=information, so I'd rather not use it. Amenities tend to be >> something you might actively look for. How about using man_made instead? > > Sounds good. > >> Isn't that simply

Re: [Tagging] Jewellery shop

2010-07-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-07-03 08:42, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > I have seen http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=jewelry > Undoubtedly the spelling is not acceptable in en_IN On wiktionary there is info that "jewellery" is a "chiefly US" spelling. source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/je