Well if a road is separated into lanes by a large area of paint which has a legal injunction not to enter, can that be regarded as barrier=paint? It passes the test of being physical - visible paint has been applied to the road and it passes the test of being a barrier by law.
Regards Brian On 7 May 2013 13:05, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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