<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout</a> says </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The tag</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="font-size:1em;font-family:monospace,monospace;direction:ltr;background:rgb(238,238,255);line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction" title="Key:junction" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">junction</a>=<a class="gmail-mw-selflink gmail-selflink" style="text-decoration:inherit;color:inherit;background:none;font-weight:bold">roundabout</a></tt><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">is</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><u>used only on road intersections where traffic on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px">roundabout</a> has right of way</u></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">.<br></span>That is, the roundabout itself should be free from all intersection controls including traffic signals, stop signs or stop markings, give-way (or yield) signs or give-way markings. However there exists exceptions in some roundabouts in some cases where there's a special service way passing through the island, reserved to buses/tramways/emergency vehicles (which will have priority to the normal traffic, and for which there may be traffic signs requiring vehicles on the ring to give the way; in normal times these giveways and traffic signals are off).<br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Where traffic does not have right of way, this is a</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circle" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);padding-right:13px">rotary</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">(also called traffic circle). The tag</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="font-size:1em;font-family:monospace,monospace;direction:ltr;background:rgb(238,238,255);line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction" title="Key:junction" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">junction</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Dcircular" title="Tag:junction=circular" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">circular</a></tt><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">should be used on rotaries</span></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">In the Netherlands, all roundabouts are tagged junction=roundabout, even though without any controls traffic on the roundabout would legally have to give way to traffic coming from the right, entering the roundabout. </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">I'm not vary confident that mappers would want to change the mapping just because the traffic code has changed somewhere in the past. Nobody here knows the word rotary for a roundabout. In practice, all roundabouts have traffic controls. Small ones just have shark's teeth, that's a legal priority control. </div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">I move to make this this restriction less strict: if there is traffic control by static signs or markings, it's also a junction=roundabout. This is visibly verifiable by any mapper, and would retain the requirement of priority for traffic on the roundabout over traffic entering the roundabout. </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Fr gr Peter Elderson<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div></div></div>
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