I've seen one actual mini round about in Seattle and one in Mount Vernon. Certainly there are numerous traffic calming islands incorrectly tagged as mini runabouts. On Jun 17, 2014 1:10 PM, "Paul Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not as rare as you think, and growing more common. I go through 2 or 3 > roundabouts regularly. The US official definitions defined in the MUTCD > are that roundabouts are uncontrolled or have yield signs entering, traffic > circles have stop signs. Neither are signal controlled in the MUTCD. We > do not have anything equivalent to the mini roundabout in the US (and > likely Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands) at all, so > intersections tagged as such are probably wrong. > On Jun 13, 2014 11:30 AM, "Clay Smalley" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Coming from the US where any form of roundabout is rare, I would consider >> any circular intersection a roundabout. Some have signals, some don't have >> signals. I know that some people in the US distinguish between the two, >> where a 'roundabout' has no signals and a 'traffic circle' does have >> signals. Either way, it makes sense to me to tag it as a roundabout because: >> >> 1) it is a junction of multiple roads >> 2) all traffic must enter a circular roadway, and then get off at some >> point >> >> Out of curiosity, what are others' criteria for a roundabout? >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Fernando Trebien < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I used to believe that, by definition, all roundabouts have free >>> transit and right of way along the circle, and that anything that >>> didn't display that property isn't a roundabout (just a circle). But >>> reading the wiki once again, I'm a little in doubt. The wiki mentions >>> that this is a roundabout, but I would previously have thought it >>> wasn't because of the traffic lights within it: >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.59689/-1.14146 >>> >>> So why is it a roundabout? Is it because of the circular shape? Or >>> could it be because it's impossible to infer that any of the entering >>> ways have right of way, since they are all controlled by traffic >>> lights? >>> >>> -- >>> Fernando Trebien >>> +55 (51) 9962-5409 >>> >>> "Nullius in verba." >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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