On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Adam Dunn <dunna...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is an issue that I noticed in the Canadian mapping guidelines > recently, though it appears it has been on the wiki for a while now. Reading > the guidelines for the "lanes" key [1] and comparing it to the Canada > mapping guidelines [2], it looks like the Canada mapping guidelines is > suggesting the wrong usage for "lanes". In the general guidelines it states > "[t]he lanes key can be used to mark the physical amount of travel lanes on > a way", while the Canadian guideline says "[h]ighways with two lanes in each > direction should be tagged as lanes=2. If there is no lanes tag, the > assumption is 1".
Folks on irc agree as well. Want to clean up the wiki? It appears that correct usage is the total number of travel lanes on the way. So an undivided 2 lanes each way should be lanes=4. We could probably use a better residential example photo. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
