On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/10/2012 7:46 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: >> >> I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/158307363 >> >> Is this how people generally map these things? > > > No, I ususally tag the end node highway=turning_circle. There are so many of > them littered around US suburbia that mapping each and every one of them as > a circular way would make for a lot of not too useful data, not to mention a > lot of work.
So we have 2 people in favor of discarding the circular portion of the Way and just using a node with highway=turning_circle. I actually also use this approach on roads such as this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/157338683 I distinguish between having a solid paved surface and a traffic island. This seems to make sense based on the recommendations for dual carriage ways (presence of physical separation causing separate Ways). According to the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dturning_circle: "There is no central island/reservation to a turning circle—it's simply a wider bit of road." Are you saying that you delete these circular portions of ways and replace with a node? Peter _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
