--- On Sat, 13/12/08, Darrin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm totally on your wavelength with respect to the making our usage > match the worlds usage, and making a new tag when we have something > different, and I get the impression a couple of others on here have > similar opinions in a general sense. > > However (isn't there always a However, or a But or some such thing ;)... > > I've been thinking about my stance with this and I think I've distilled > why it's been bugging me. I tend to make sure that any reasonably size > island of any sort is represented by separating the ways since > said island is blocking normal traffic movement between the 2 > carriageways (about the only ones I skip are the small lane separator > islands you get on the side roads in some small T-junctions, but I'll > clock that up to my laziness ;). So given even the smallest > roundabouts are islands of quite a large size I like to see them > represented on the map as a separating of the ways. > > So after realising this I can't actually stand in support of > junction=roundabout on a point (or some other similar proposal) as a > permanent fixture, but would fully support it as a 'temporary' tag to > indicate at some point someone with my kind of island obsession comes > along and puts in the details.
I thought the same when I first started mapping, as I wanted to show centre & pedestrian islands like in the Melways. But the wiki is very specific http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tag:junction%3Droundabout It says that normal pedestrian islands aren't meant to be drawn as two separate ways (flares). I guess you need to add a comment to the discussion page or on Talk mailing list to propose something different. Therefore given the wiki definition, there isn't anything gained by having 4+ nodes when compared to a point and some kind of diameter value. BlueMM Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
