I added highway=turning_loop to the last example and noted, that it is under discussion right now.
It would really help a lot if the major renderers would support this, as well as junction=roundabout on a single node. Otherwise I'm afraid the acceptance would be rather low. Thanks! Martin 2012/5/15 Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com>: > * 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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
