I have always operated on the assumption that you only split the road into two ways if they are physically separated by a barrier, I'm pretty sure that has been the consensus practice for a good six years.
Regards, Tom On 7 May 2013 12:27, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently added this note in Lincoln: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/note/1565<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/1565> > > "There are a number of problems here. The A15 here isn't a dual > carriageway, and the "roads" between the "southbound A15" and Pottergate > consequentially don't exist. There may well be turn restrictions into and > out of Pottergate and into Lindum Street, but I didn't notice any when I > was there recently. Needs a ground survey." > > This is the area concerned (to see the full extent of what's going on, > open in an editor): > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**lat=53.233132&lon=-0.532384&** > zoom=18&layers=M<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.233132&lon=-0.532384&zoom=18&layers=M> > > A reviewed of the note has replied "are you sure? the split road doesn't > necessarily mean its a duel carrigeway, just that the two lanes are split, > in this case by large road lines". > > > My view was that multiple lanes in a road where there's no physical > barrier are best expressed by the "lanes" tag (previously in this example, > before I extended Lindum Street to the northbound lane, it was implied that > you couldn't cross the road from the northbound lane to walk south into > Lindum Street - something I did a couple of weeks ago without problems). > > A number of other roads locally have this issue - > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/note/1573<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/1573>is > a more extreme one. > > > My question is this - obviously I'm out of step with the previous mappers > and the editor of the note, but who's "correct" (or are we all wrong, and > should we be doing something completely differently)? > > I'm concerned that modelling road junctions purely for motor vehicle > traffic will (as in the Lindum Street example before I changed it) be > incorrect for all other sorts of traffic. > > Cheers, > Andy > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gb<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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