<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Good question.<br><br></div>I think this is because originally it was, as many others in the UK, a true roundabout with priority in the ring. The traffic signals were added later to avoid blocking up the (ex-)roundabouts. I have seen many roundabouts in the UK go through these phases: New "clean" roundabout; access control by traffic signals (sometimes part-time); traffic signals in the actual ring (as in the example.<br>
</div>Even though they are still called xxx-roundabout, I agree with you that they do not correspond to the criteria for roundabouts, and I believe there are no roundabout traffic signs either<br></div>I would invite comments form the UK mappers on this, as they seem to have added the corresponding paragraph into the wiki article on roundabouts. <br>
</div>Here in Italy I would not tag a similar road layout as junction=roundabout<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2014 17:54, Fernando Trebien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fernando.trebien@gmail.com" target="_blank">fernando.trebien@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I used to believe that, by definition, all roundabouts have free<br>
transit and right of way along the circle, and that anything that<br>
didn't display that property isn't a roundabout (just a circle). But<br>
reading the wiki once again, I'm a little in doubt. The wiki mentions<br>
that this is a roundabout, but I would previously have thought it<br>
wasn't because of the traffic lights within it:<br>
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.59689/-1.14146" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.59689/-1.14146</a><br>
<br>
So why is it a roundabout? Is it because of the circular shape? Or<br>
could it be because it's impossible to infer that any of the entering<br>
ways have right of way, since they are all controlled by traffic<br>
lights?<br>
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