On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: [snip] >> >> 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.
I'm not so sure we should go down that path quite yet. (pasted my comment from the talk page) From a quick unscientifically-randomish review of nodes tagged as highway=mini_roundabout, the majority in the United States are NOT traversable (thanks to excellent Bing imagery, out of the few dozen I looked at NONE appeared to be traversable), while I can't tell for other areas of the world due to poorer resolution. For those interested, you can download all current nodes as a zipped OSM file (http://joshd.dev.openstreetmap.org/all_mini_roundabouts_20120510.zip), and some quick stats: 39,923 total nodes, with top users being Gregory Williams (3226), westendguy (1326), woodpeck_fixbot (813), user_5121 (659), Dr Kludge (543), mackerski (396), NE2 (348), NicRoets (306), Dion Dock (288), UniEagle (287). -Josh _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
