[OSM-newbies] roundabout at end of streets

[Jeffrey Martin]

I vote cul-de-sac

On 8/10/07, John Wolter <jwolter0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why do we tag roundabouts as a separate entity anyway?  I would argue that
> it is because the roundabout is a separate entity from the streets around
> it.  If Smith Street and Wilson Street meet in a roundabout, the roundabout
> is neither Smith Street nor Wilson Street (or perhaps it's both, but that's
> a philosophical argument).  The roundabout may indeed have its own name,
> e.g. St. Anne's Place.  This distinction will be even more important when
> someone develops an application that creates directions from the database.
>
> On the other hand, if Carver Road ends in a cul-de-sac, the cul-de-sac
> part is usually still Carver Road, so I'd say it's not a roundabout for OSM
> purposes.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Newbies mailing list
> Newbies at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
>
>


-- 
http://bowlad.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/attachments/20070810/6ff63a7e/attachment.html>