Paul Norman <[email protected]> > I would not separate a road with a double-yellow in the middle into two > separate ways
And millions of miles of two-lane roads with opposing flows have been modeled in OSM as single ways. But why? I'd submit that it's because the current de facto usage of ways is to model "contiguous areas of improved driving surfaces", not "traffic flows". To prove my point, if I milled out a one-foot wide swath of asphalt where the double yellow lines are to create a "median" consisting of nothing other than dirt, but changed absolutely nothing else in regards to the traffic flows, I'd suddenly be expected to model this in OSM as two discrete ways. All I've done is replaced paint with dirt. I've changed nothing in regards to the legality of transferring between the flows (paint or median, I still am not allowed to transfer between the flows). I've changed nothing about the physical ability to transfer between them (I can drive over a patch of dirt as easily as I can drive over a stripe of paint). Yet I've changed how I model them. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
