On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Andrew Errington wrote: > A lane count of 1.5 is very confusing. What does it mean? What is the width > of each lane? Is it really 1.5? Should it be 1.55, or 1.4, or 1.6?
...No, it's not multiple of some magical "default lane width" like you imply. But simply _something_ between "normal" lanes=1 and "normal" lanes=2. > It's more useful to tell me width of the road. Then, if there is one > lane I can see maybe it's very wide, or if two lanes I can see maybe > they are very narrow. ...But how can I tag you this: A road which is lanes=1+wide _AND_ lanes=2+narrow at the same time? ...You ask me to provide width and select one of those two, and that is what I oppose, unless you give me some real tag that is not width to tell that 'hey, there really isn't lanes marked (which makes it kind of lanes=1) but two can somewhat fit (which makes it kind of lanes=2 but not really because it's only "somewhat")'! ...What I would not want to do is to tag those lanes=1 because that's certainly a lie as anyone can clearly see after observing some bidirectional traffic there. > In summary, I think simpler is better. A non-integer lane count is useless. > Use the width tag. I oppose using width tag (at least alone) for this because it won't convey the double meaning. Some other tag than width and tagging with lanes=2 perhaps (like I already suggested much earlier)? -- i. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
