On 20/09/12 18:37, Stephen Hope wrote:
On 20 September 2012 09:41, Ross Scanlon <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes it is a small roundabout as you can not legally drive over it
unless it is impractical to do so.
The vehicle in the street view is clearly about to drive around the
center island. Whereas if it was a truck/bus/caravan it would be
able to drive over it if necessary.
Read through the mailing list archives all this discussion was
thrashed out years ago and nothing has changed.
What you just described is the exact definition of a mini-roundabout.
No, it's the Australian road rules in relation to roundabouts. Notice
on the wiki that the image has a blue sign. This legally defines the
roundabout as a mini-roundabout and ALL vehicles MAY traverse the center
island whilst still complying with the rules applicable to roundabouts.
In Australia this just does not exist, so they are all roundabouts, just
varying in size.
Mini-roundabout doesn't mean you can legally drive over it in any
vehicle, it means that you can physically drive over it if you need to.
The australian guidelines are wrong, in this case. And yes, I know how
they evolved to this state, I've kept up on the discussion over the
years. But with the recent clarifications to the definition of
mini-roundabout and roundabout in the main tagging guideline, and the
fact that you can't tag a fully drawn out roundabout as traversable,
there is now a need for using mini-roundabout in Australia.
Why?
Most of this is just people just being slack and not wanting to draw the
roundabout. It's not that hard.
Cheers
Ross
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