On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/19/2012 11:43 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: >> >> All three examples would not be roundabouts in Germany or Italy, where >> the use of the "roundabout" tag is linked to the presence of the >> corresponding road sign for a roundabout, at least this seems to be >> common practice on OSM. > > > In New Jersey the standard sign says 'circle', and in Massachusetts it says > 'rotary'. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Route_34_circle.jpg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LowellRotary1.jpg > Both are used on "true" roundabouts, as well as on things that some would > not call roundabouts (including the Route 34 example, where the approach > shown does not yield).
It is certainly possible that "circle" and "rotary" are terms which overlap with or are supersets of "roundabout". I'd be interested in seeing a sign which says "circle" used on a roundabout, though. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
