ok - will give it a go. my mental image of a turning circle may have been more like a round about...
Canberra must have more of these things than any other .au city... jim On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM, John Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- _________________ Jim Croft ~ [email protected] ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
