Right, we're only counting striped lanes.

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Jack Burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> But they *are* lanes. They just aren't striped.
>
> -jack
> --
> Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology
>
>
> On May 8, 2018 3:24:08 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The tag you're looking for is width, not lanes.
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018, 13:29 Tod Fitch <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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