Without willing to interfere in this discussion about the true nature of seemingly similar roundish street features, I'd like to point out that ending a line with a pentagonal or hexagonal approximation of a circle is actually less work than adding a tag on the last node (extra 5 or 6 clicks compared to selecting the node, opening some list, typing first few letters, confirming (or typing it from scratch)...) LM
2012/3/13 Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com>: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: >> >>> Definitely not a turning_circle. Either map as a loop or mini_roundabout. >>> -Josh >> >> Not a mini_roundabout, either; those typically are painted onto the >> road surface and don't include a hard island. > > So we need to do one of the following: > 1) "Force" everyone to draw a loop around the island (too tedious) > 2) Change definition of mini_roundabout to allow for non-traversable > islands (not happening, since it seems a traversable island is nearly > universal, even in the US [1]) > 3) Invent new tag > 4) Tag as turning_circle, perhaps additionally using a > traffic_calming=* value such as island [2] > > My vote is for #4. Time for me to try out Overpass to get my > mis-tagged features... > > -Josh > > [1]: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/fhwasa10007/ > [2]:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_calming > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
