>You say "turnout". But physically, is it just an additional lane that >appears, and (more or less) one is obligated to move right one lane into >it if you're in the way?
Exactly. I explained this several posts ago. It is an additional lane, running for perhaps a quarter mile, sometimes longer, that any vehicle which is holding back some number of other vehicles is obligated to use so that those following vehicles may pass. The reason I used the term "turnout" is because the signage erected by the Alaska DOT uses that term, as in, "Slow Vehicle Turnout Ahead 1500 feet". I see polyglot is ready to add some sort of processing to JOSM's PT_Assistant plugin if only we can decide what to call such lanes in OSM. I think the term slow_vehicle would work just fine. Dave On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:11 AM Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > A few months ago bus_bay=left|right|both was voted. For me this is > similar, albeit over a longer distance. > > extra_lane_for_slow_moving_traffic_to_compulsory_halt_to_let_other_traffic_pass_by=left|right|both > ? > > If you figure out which tag to use, we'll add it to the double split map > mode of JOSM's PT_Assistant plugin. > > Polyglot > > Op wo 12 sep. 2018 om 18:49 schreef Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com>: > >> >> > Again, I emphasize, this is not a crawler lane or a hill climbing lane. >> It >> > is a lane into which one pulls over to allow faster moving traffic to >> pass. >> > In fact, Alaskan law demands that any vehicle being followed by 5 >> vehicles >> > must, at the first opportunity, allow those vehicles to pass. I doubt >> > anyone has ever been ticketed for this offense but nevertheless, the law >> > exists. Alaskan highways also have hill climbing lanes that are signed >> > "keep right except to pass". Those lanes are not the same as this one. >> >> Sorry, didn't get that this is not climbing lane (my fault). In New >> England, extra lanes that one would associate with "slow vehicle" are >> 99% on hills. >> >> > Perhaps "slow_moving" isn't the best term for this sort of highway >> turnout >> > but it does the job. >> >> You say "turnout". But physically, is it just an additional lane that >> appears, and (more or less) one is obligated to move right one lane into >> it if you're in the way? >> >> Do any routers do anything? An example of how the data would be used, >> or how you think it would be used in an ideal future might be >> illuminaing. Perhaps one's car computer could notice from forward >> radar that there is obstructing traffic and query osmand and give you a >> notification that the road becomes multilane in some distance, so you >> can get ready to blink to get the obstructor to move over if they stay >> left? In that case, I wonder about the difference between a change to >> two lanes (perhaps because the row is wide enough and the long-term plan >> is 2) and a specific place like you describe. >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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