On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5/10/2012 11:52 AM, fly wrote: >>> >>> Why should we have two tags for roundabouts which differe only in size. >>> We do not do this with other objects/tags. >> >> waterway=ditch/canal and stream/river? >> >> (By the way, we don't currently have two node tags for roundabouts. Hence >> the current situation.) > > Agreed, for a long time I used highway=mini_roundabout for cul-de-sacs > with islands (usually planted with trees). > > I propose we start accepting junction=roundabout to be used on nodes. > This shouldn't produce any problems for data consumers, is logical, > and would save a lot of time for tagging the many small roundabouts > that exist especially in residential areas.
I think I would be willing to go with this solution. It seems the people who actually have mini roundabouts around them are very adamant about their meaning. While I don't really see harm in using it in slightly different circumstances where true mini roundabouts don't exist, I think putting junction=roundabout on nodes is acceptable as well. the JOSM validator will need to be updated to allow this tag on a node without complaining and not require a highway=* tag to go along with it. Mapnik can probably use the same symbol for both. Anything else need to change? (aside from the wiki of course) Toby _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
