On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Blaž Lorger<blaz.lor...@triera.net> wrote: > To my knowledge there is no such thing as usual highway width. There are > certain standards for width of newly built roads, but those usually increase > over time, which means you will be forced to periodically reevaluate *ALL* > "narrow" tagging.
+1 > Having actual road width is always more useful than having just some > subjective estimate whether road is too narrow or not. Besides rendering you > can use it to improve routing based on actual vehicle width/size. +1. > some subjective factor is inevitable, but at least it should be kept as low as > possible. +1 Tagging width=* is more faithful to what actually exists on the ground, which is always the better long term approach. And the meaning is much clearer than narrow=*, especially for those who only skim the wiki. Also, width=* interacts nicely with lanes=* - from these two tags you can see the width of the entire way, and also calculate the width of each lane. Whereas with narrow=*, it's not quite as clear whether this refers to narrow lanes or a narrow way... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
