<div dir="ltr">I tag only those traffic islands that have a curb around them to prevent vehicle access. I tag the enclosed area with highway=pedestrian, area=yes, and the way surrounding it with barrier=kerb (although I prefer "curb"). I ignore painted, cross hatched or striped, areas. <div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM, John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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> On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I commonly tag the center-lane variety as lanes:both_ways=1, access:lanes:both_ways=no<br>
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</span>I completely forgot about the center common bi-directional turn lane. Tons of them in the US, never seen one in Japan yet.<br>
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Javbw.<br>
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