Wow, really? Got a photo? On Jun 17, 2014 4:22 PM, "Clifford Snow" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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