I also don't put a highway ref or name on a roundabout on the grounds that it is a junction of more than one road and, though perhaps "mapping for the renderer" so that they don't show up as labels. If the roundabout itself has a name, I put it on the way.
Mike At 02:15 PM 7/10/2008, Simon Hewison wrote: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:45 +0200, Celso González wrote:> Two options here:> >-ref is the one or ones that are used in the highway> -ref is not needed at >all> >I'd suggest that ref is not needed at all, unless the roundabout itselfhas one >that is unique to itself. Quite often roundabouts are named. Iguess that some >of them may have some official reference number as well.It shouldn't normally >have either name, or reference of any of thejoining ways. >Any route describing software should pick up on junction=roundabout, andwork >out which exit of the roundabout to describe the manoeuvre as, andideally what >the signposts might say on that exit. >Of course, counting exits needs to count permitted exits - quite oftensome >roundabouts have oneway roads joining them, if they're not leadingaway from >the roundabout, you don't count them. >Some examples of roundabouts that might cause problems: >The Handy Cross Interchange, High >Wycombe:http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.61291&lon=-0.76999&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >A4 Wellington Street/A412 junction in Slough:Note: This is not >grade-separated. Traffic going along the A4 is allowedto go straight over the >top of the roundabout. The ways across the topof the roundabout are indeed >part of the A4. >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.50815&lon=-0.581066&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF >Then of course, there's got to be the obligatory roundabout withoneway=false. >This one is the Magic Roundabout at Hemel Hempstead, butthere are others. At >the moment, this one isn't labelled asjunction=roundabout. >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.746358&lon=-0.47329&zoom=18&layers=B000FTT >-- Simon Hewison > >_______________________________________________talk mailing [EMAIL >PROTECTED]://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
