* Martin Vonwald <imagic....@gmail.com> [2012-05-15 14:11 +0200]: > Now the only issue remaining is: how? Right now I see two solutions: > 1) highway=turning_circle and turning_circle=island or traffic_calming=island > 2) new tag like e.g. highway=turning_loop [snip] > I would really like to get more opinions from the people using > turning_circle right now for places with islands.
I usually map loops explicitly, but I have occasionally tagged such places as highway=turning_circle when I wanted to indicate that there was something there, but didn't want to spend the time drawing a bunch of loops. In such cases, I've used turning_circle, because it seemed the least-incorrect tag available. I think I'd prefer highway=turning_loop. It seems simpler to use one tag rather than two, since in this case, you could argue that a turning-area-with-an-island is not really a subtype of a turning-area-without-an-island. (Though you could address that by saying that the two cases are highway=turning_circle, turning_circle=island and highway=turning_circle, turning_circle=open, with the assumption that a missing turning_circle tag implies turning_circle=open.) I don't think it would be too hard to add a rendering for highway=turning_loop, so if it gets general approval and no one else beats me to it, I'll try to put together a patch against the main rendering for it. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- o \ o / _ o __| \ / |__ o _ \ o / o /|\ | /\ ___\o \o | o/ o/__ /\ | /|\ / \ / \ | \ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \ / \ ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
