As you say, I and others have been using the node tag "highway=turning_circle" for this.
It seems to neatly fit the bill: "A turning circle is a rounded, widened area usually, but not necessarily, at the end of a road to facilitate easier turning of a vehicle." John Jim Croft wrote: > Many of the residential 'dead ends' in Giralang are terminated by neat > little blobs that render sort of like the turning radius at the ends > of these streets. This is not uniform practice across the ACT. > > On inspection, these blobs are labelled 'turning circle'... which > seems a bit at the extreme end of the definition in these cases. > > Should all dead ends with an expanded turning radius be terminated > this way in OSM? Need advice about what to do with the end of my > street - and the others in the suburb... :) > > Interestingly, the ACT govt public maps deal with this in their > on-line application by drawing the actual line of the curb as it > curves out and around. > > jim > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
