On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/15/2012 10:30 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Okay, so, for OSM terminology, a roundabout means 1) traffic goes in >> one direction; 2) entering traffic must yield; and 3) entering traffic >> need not stop (no stop signs). > > > Nope. Junction=roundabout applies to all (one-way) traffic circles, no > matter what the right-of-way rules are.
Okay, so http://www.yargerengineering.com/articles/images/Traffic-Circle-Woodruff-Place-Indy400.jpg is junction=roundabout? And the only difference between a roundabout and http://g.co/maps/nvhfh is that you can (supposedly) make a left at the latter without going all the way around in a counter-clockwise direction? (In other words, if there was a sign indicating that you had to drive to the right of the island, it would be a roundabout?) > Unless you want to invent a new tag > for the New Jersey circles that give right-of-way to some approaches. I wouldn't mind. There's something fundamentally different between a typical New Jersey traffic circle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marlton_circle.jpg) and an island in the middle of an intersection which people drive around in a counter-clockwise direction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NonUK_Roundabout_8_Cars.gif). I certainly would give different driving directions in each instance (something like "merge onto the Marlton Circle and make a right at the third exit" vs. "make a left at the roundabout intersection"). > New > Jerseyans certainly don't distinguish them from other circles where all > entering traffic must yield. I can't think of any true roundabouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NonUK_Roundabout_8_Cars.gif) in New Jersey. But then, I haven't lived there in over a decade. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
