Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread James Mast
une 19, 2017 4:37:09 PM To: Paul Johnson Cc: Horea Meleg; talk-US@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2 For the ‘dashed line’ center turn lanes: what you do makes sense to me too. I have used center_turn_lane=yes in the past, but that is not documented and

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 06/20/2017 06:43 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Depends on the region. Oregon, Oklahoma, and California often includes > the arrows anyway. Texas often includes the arrows as well. -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:37 PM, wrote: > The turn lanes plugin seems to support this nicely: https://www.dropbox. > com/s/8wmp5h2cn931pic/Screenshot%202017-06-19%2014.33.40.jpg?dl=0 — even > though the center lane is rarely marked with left turn arrows, as suggested > by the

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:44 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Judging from the markings, that is a turn lane shared by both directions. > You cannot legally use it to pass a car in the main driving lane, you can > only use it to make a left turn. Lanes of this type are

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread Marc Gemis
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM, wrote: > The turn lanes plugin seems to support this nicely: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wmp5h2cn931pic/Screenshot%202017-06-19%2014.33.40.jpg?dl=0 > — even though the center lane is rarely marked with left turn arrows, as > suggested by the

[Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-20 Thread Michael Patrick
> > Me and my Telenav colleagues are editing lane numbers in Detroit area. > We found some cases that looks like this (42.43651692568901, > -83.51102781049859): Our question is: what is the central lane used for and > how do we map it? Should we count it as a separate lane and have 3 lanes in >

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
Judging from the markings, that is a turn lane shared by both directions. You cannot legally use it to pass a car in the main driving lane, you can only use it to make a left turn. Lanes of this type are nicknamed "suicide lanes", because of the possibility that vehicles going in opposite

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread m
For the ‘dashed line’ center turn lanes: what you do makes sense to me too. I have used center_turn_lane=yes in the past, but that is not documented and I wouldn’t encourage it. This way it fits nicely into the lanes schema. The turn lanes plugin seems to support this nicely:

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Tod Fitch wrote: > I haven’t settled on a tagging for when the center area is blocked by > solid lines (legally meaning don’t cross), but an access tag would be > reasonable. An alternative or addition to an access control could be using >

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Tod Fitch
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 4:20 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > In this case, with the dual-direction turn lane, I would label that with > lanes:both_ways=1 and turn:lanes:both_ways=left. If the center lane has two > solid lines (making it a flush median), then lanes:both_ways=1

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Kerry Irons wrote: > Center lane is a left turn only lane. If the space to the side of the > solid white lines is a bike lane, then this street may have be subject to a > “road diet” in which a 4 lane street is reduced to two travel

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Kerry Irons
in that configuration. From: Paul Johnson [mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 7:21 AM To: Horea Meleg <horea.me...@telenav.com> Cc: talk-US@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2 In this case, with the dual-direction turn lane, I would

Re: [Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
In this case, with the dual-direction turn lane, I would label that with lanes:both_ways=1 and turn:lanes:both_ways=left. If the center lane has two solid lines (making it a flush median), then lanes:both_ways=1 and access:lanes:both_ways=no On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Horea Meleg

[Talk-us] Best practice in Lane Editing 2

2017-06-19 Thread Horea Meleg
Hello all, Me and my Telenav colleagues are editing lane numbers in Detroit area. We found some cases that looks like this (42.43651692568901, -83.51102781049859): [cid:image001.jpg@01D2E906.C4A4DCA0] Our question is: what is the central lane used for and how do we map it? Should we count it as a