2009/8/30 Anthony <[email protected]>: > It was you who suggested that a stop sign is applicable to a lane not a > way. I'd say, like Tobias, that it is applicable to a way and a direction.
No, you stop at a stop sign which is a point on a way, direction only matters if you can't tag this point on individual lanes. > Where I live we do not have multiple lanes. You park on the side and you > drive around parked cars in the middle. With very few exceptions, stop > signs don't apply to lanes, they apply to ways and directions. In those few > exceptions, it probably makes sense to split the way. In the case of the That would confuse a lot of people that are used to ways being physical. > exceptions I can think of this is especially appropriate because at the spot > where the stop sign applies to one lane and not the others the road is > divided by a painted median and changing lanes is not allowed. There are > probably a small number of exceptions where this is not true, but splitting > the way in those cases is harmless. I think you are confusing what I said, assuming you have a way which is a lane of through traffic that runs in each direction, the stop sign only applies to one of the 2 lanes, not the entire way. The rest of your email seemed to keep making the same flawed assumptions about what I said. > I really don't see how it's less complicated to use the physical rather than > the logical. It's actually much more complicated when you get into the > micro areas and you start adding straight lines through a large intersection > instead of curved left turns. Because most ways are a simple case of 2 symmetrical lanes, one in each direction, so simplier because it's half the work to make 2 lanes by making a single way. Mapping a way becomes more easier than lanes if there is 3 or 4 or 10 lanes. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
