The routing app could also say "go to the first circle and then take the second exit" and it would be well understood too, I think. If the user is aware of the differences between a roundabout and a traffic circle, he/she will even know beforehand if they're supposed to stop/yield at the entrances or inside the ring.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Janko Mihelić <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-06-18 8:38 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt <[email protected]>: > >> As the Wikipedia article shows, the original French sign for roundabout >> implied the priorité a droite and is identical to the one shown in the >> Croatian example >> (https://maps.google.hr/?ll=45.492397,15.549753&spn=0.004543,0.00883&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.492457,15.549814&panoid=606WGc-Rt8U3f-UU0k0WLQ&cbp=12,196.42,,0,11.92)? >> Janko may be able to confirm that the Croatian Highway Code gives the >> priority to the right in roundabouts. > > > No, this is an exception in Croatia. Croatian Highway Code is the same as > elsewhere in Europe, traffic inside the roundabout has right of way. > > It just seems to me that we should call this a roundabout because anyone > that sees this thinks "roundabout" as a first thought, even without the > sign. Maybe a strange roundabout, but a roundabout. If a routing application > says "go to the first roundabout and then take the second exit" everybody > will know how to follow those instructions. If an application says "turn > right at the first junction, and then right at the second junction" no one > will know what it's trying to say. > > I've never heard of this "turning circle" term. Maybe we should call this a > turning circle, and then beg routing application developers to treat it the > same as roundabout. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
