My thoughts are the same as Liz. The number of lanes should be the number available for each direction. If the road has a lanes= tag and a oneway=yes tag, then it should be the total number for the way.
David On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:07 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > This is another one of those cases where the instructions used to be > in unclear. For a while the Wiki said the count was number of lanes > "in each direction". Some did that, some did total lane count. It > has since been changed to the current (and I'm told former) total > count, but there is quite likely to still be bad data around. I'm > guessing you've found some. > > Stephen > > > > 2010/1/22 Mark Pulley <[email protected]>: > > I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip > > there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are > > labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a > > painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these, but I > > wanted to check what to use if the road (residential or unclassified) > > doesn't have centre line markings. Should we use "lanes=1" only if > > it's narrow, or in all residential roads without lane markings? (or > > leave the tag off completely?) What do other people do? > > > > Mark P. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

