Martin Vonwald wrote:
The proposal
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lanes_General_Extension
is now open for voting.
Is voting on this really helpful right now? I believe that nobody can
honestly know at this point whether the proposal's idea is actually
good, whether it needs minor corrections, or whether we maybe even
should try something completely different.
Personally, I consider it most likely that the general idea is the right
way to go, but that minor modifications would still improve it. However,
I cannot tell with any certainty before I had the opportunity to gather
some experience with it.
For example, I'm currently experimenting with lane rendering in
OSM2World. The experiences so far have confirmed some of my
previously-held assumptions about the usefulness of certain lane tagging
schemes, and made me question others.¹ Similarly, I expect that actually
trying to apply a tagging scheme to large parts of my town would also
result in some practical insight into what works and what doesn't. But
that, again, takes time.
So I cannot vote for or against this proposal today because I couldn't
make a sufficiently informed decision. The vote might give some insight
into how mappers think about value-sequence based lane tagging, but
probably not much about this specific variant thereof - so no matter
what the result of this vote will be, I will not consider myself bound
by it. Hopefully, others will think the same way, and remain open for
better solutions if they come up in the future.
Tobias
¹ I found it very helpful for my use case to have the road's lanes split
into a "left" and a "right" part. I also relied on the assumption that I
would be able to clearly determine a lane's "type" (e.g. sidewalk, cycle
lane, parking lane, bus lane, ...) somehow.
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