But they *are* lanes. They just aren't striped.

-jack
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On May 8, 2018 3:24:08 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
>The tag you're looking for is width, not lanes.
>
>On Tue, May 8, 2018, 13:29 Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote:
>
>> Most residential roads in my area are unstriped but are definitely
>built
>> for two lanes of traffic (one in each direction). It seems perfectly
>> reasonable to me to tag them with lanes=2 as they are designed to
>take two
>> lanes of traffic.
>>
>> In fact, as part of some traffic calming measures a number of
>residential
>> roads are having the lane striping removed. They claim that people
>tend to
>> drive slower if there is no marking showing the boundary for oncoming
>> traffic. I certainly will not be removing lanes=2 from those roads.
>>
>>
>> > On May 8, 2018, at 11:20 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 5/8/2018 11:55 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> >> Then with residential streets where there are no lanes, often
>lanes=2
>> would get tagged anyway despite nothing on the ground suggesting that
>was
>> actually the case.
>> >
>> >  I hadn't considered that unstriped roads shouldn't have lane
>tagging,
>> but at least this doesn't cause bad effects for map data users.
>> >
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