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<p>Thanks Warin,</p>
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<p>I maybe should have explained myself a bit better; I was actually referring to the ways leading into the roundabout, rather than the roundabout itself. :)</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2021-11-15 20:38, Warin wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 15/11/21 6:18 pm, Dian Ågesson wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Hello,</span><br /><br />Quick question, as I'm not sure that there is an established consensus in Australia for this.<br /><br />Where a way leading to a roundabout has a small traffic island, what is the preferred way to map? I have seen both the "traffic island as a node" approach (because they aren't really separate carriageways) and the "splitting ways" approach (because physical separation and more "detailed).<br /><br />Specific examples: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/121203404/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/121203404/history</a> <<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/121203404/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/121203404/history</a>> or <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603989993" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603989993</a> <<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603989993" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603989993</a>><br /><br />Is there a preferred approach, or does it not really matter? If splitting ways, are u-turns restrictions required?<br /><br /></blockquote>
<br />Roundabouts are one way. So do ing a U turn by going the wrong way in the roundabout would be against the law. I'd think all roundabouts would be one way.<br /><br />I have yet to see a 'no U turn' on them and they do make a good safer place to do a u turn if you do the correct thing.<br /><br /><br />There are very small roundabouts that have a specific tag ... basically these are a white painted circle on the road - they as so small that trucks and buses need to go over the centre ... those I'd only do as a node.<br /><br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Talk-au mailing list</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a></span></div>
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