Without digging deeply into width, presumably it measured in meters ? I can see value there, but the width has to be an average, and the cleared area for passage of vehicles.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 3:12 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 5:49 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > This requirement is fine for Europe, but the presence of lane markings >> > is not reliable in all of the world. >> > >> > In developing countries, such as here in Indonesia, the presence of >> > painted lane markings is inconsistent. Often cheap pain is used >> > instead of more durable thermoplastic, so the markings only last a >> > year. After that the road still functions the same, even though the >> > markings are no longer visible. >> >> It is not just about developing countries. In my part of the US, there >> are many roads whicha have either no paint at all, or have white lines >> at the edges (so you can see where the edges are at night). Almost all >> of these roads are wide enough for two cars to pass comfortably, but not >> really wider than that. This seems really obviously one lane in each >> direction, and everybody who drives here gets that. There is a legal >> requirement to stay on the right of the imaginary center lane (absent a >> reason such as passing a pedestrian); you can be cited for "operating >> left of center" entire reasonably on a two-cars-wide road with no >> markings -- but that will only happen if you are left of center >> egregiously or on a blind curve or rise. >> >> >> So that's a long way of saying that "lane markings" should not be >> required for lanes=N; it is enough to observe the local conventions > > > In that example, I think it'd be better to just tag width=* instead of > lanes=*. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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