On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan Mintz <[email protected]> wrote: > On long or inclined two-lane roads (e.g. in the mountains), there are > "turnouts" at regular intervals on each side of road for slower traffic to > pull off to allow faster traffic to pass them. These are different than wide > spots on a dirt road that are usable by traffic in either direction, which > appears to be what the wiki calls a "passing place". Turnouts are clearly > for use by only the direction for which they are marked. > > My problem is not with the terminology itself, but with losing the > information about which direction the turnout is for. How about: > > turnout=forward [turnout used by traffic in the forward direction of the > way] > turnout=backward [turnout used by traffic opposing the direction of the way] > > or > > turnout:forward=yes > turnout:backward=yes
Aren't these simply additional driving lanes? Why not add lanes= tags where appropriate? So, one lane each way is lanes=2, add an uphill lane becomes lanes=3 . This works for divided highways as well. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
