On Tue Oct 27 21:01:30 2015 GMT, André Pirard wrote: . > > OSM will always surprise me. > > Here in Belgium, what is called the "white line" is of uttermost importance. > And I suppose in most other countries too. > I've been looking for it in vain in the wiki and now it surges. > But, first of all, we must distinguish a striped line, as said above, > and a continuous white line. > What I say relates to the continuous line. That line means: > > * that overtaking is forbidden True, but exceptions allow you to overtake slow moving vehicles.
> * that turning left is forbidden (for right side driving) > * and of course also that U-turn is forbidden > * but also that turning left is forbidden when coming from a crossing Those are both country specific, in the UK you can certainly turn over a solid line. When driving in France, where tbe rule applies, I did notice that there are lots of breaks by every driveway/minor road to allow turns. This would need some intrecate tagging. > Hence, it may replace many complicated turn restrictions very simply. > And instead of "replace", I should say "add" because they're often missing. As I said above, they rarely apply because there is almost always a break in the line. > > (because making relations is difficult) > For a simple 2-lane road, it would best be a tag of the highway, not an > additional line. > > The downside is that it would produce many splits. A lot... I never saw a turn that was prevented by a line because there was always a break. > > The most surprising is that it seems to be a one man's tagging > assimilated to a hedge !!! ?????? Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
