Previous discussion: 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-June/017805.html 
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Some people suggested `junction=traffic_circle`
It’s used in taginfo a few times but pretty unofficial and rare.

Bryan



> On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Daniel Hofmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Over at OSRM we're not only doing Routing on OSM but also Guidance for users 
> once a suitable route is found. In order to make the user experience great 
> and the instructions pleasant to use we differentiate between
> 
> 1/ Roundabouts
> Think: "at the roundabout take the nth exit"
> 
> 2/ Roundabout Intersections
> These are roundabouts with up to four ways and turn angles which makes the 
> turns obvious.
> Think: "at the roundabout turn left"
> 
> 3/ Rotaries
> These are large and named roundabouts.
> Think: "at Meinplatz take the nth exit"
> 
> 4/ Not-a-Roundabout (what this post is about)
> There are situations where one of the entering road has right of way, which 
> disqualifies the scenario for being classified as a roundabout. The Wiki has 
> a section on these Not-a-Roundabouts:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout#Not_a_roundabout 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout#Not_a_roundabout>
> > In all these cases, the key “junction” is not necessary at all. You need no 
> > special tagging. 
> 
> Most of these Not-a-Roundabouts have a note on them, telling users not to tag 
> them as junction=roundabout as this is a common mistake. Here are two 
> examples in Berlin:
> 
> Bersarinplatz
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/288767318#map=19/52.51849/13.45355&layers=D 
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/288767318#map=19/52.51849/13.45355&layers=D>
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=52.51786%2C13.45348%3B52.51918%2C13.45281#map=19/52.51852/13.45327
>  
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=52.51786%2C13.45348%3B52.51918%2C13.45281#map=19/52.51852/13.45327>
> 
> Kottbusser Tor
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/159155852#map=19/52.49898/13.41881&layers=D 
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/159155852#map=19/52.49898/13.41881&layers=D>
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=52.49915%2C13.41952%3B52.49857%2C13.41852#map=19/52.49896/13.41865
>  
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=52.49915%2C13.41952%3B52.49857%2C13.41852#map=19/52.49896/13.41865>
> 
> As you can tell, for both of those situations the routing engine is not able 
> to issue special instructions since there is no tag to parse. And parsing 
> note tags for the occurrence of roundabout is not a solution ;)
> 
> With the current situations of having note="don't tag as roundabout" 
> pseudo-tags on most of those it would make sense to establish a proper 
> junction=not_a_roundabout tag (tag is up for discussion) software can parse 
> and make use of.
> 
> What's your opinion on Not-a-Roundabout?
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel J H
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