[OSM-newbies] Oh Bollards!

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> On the main road outside my house there is a central island with a keep-left bollard at each end, like these: http://www.streetlightonline.co.uk/tbols_in_collection.htm
> The bollard does not obstruct traffic, but would prevent over-wide vehicles from travelling down this road.
> How do I mark this up?
>
> Furthermore, at the other end of the road there is a deliberate traffic-calming obstruction on one side of the road, forcing cars to queue until all traffic travelling in the opposite direction has passed, then pull out around the bollard and onto the wrong side of the road. Furthermore, bicycles are permitted to pass the bollard in a straight line without having to pull out.
> Same question.

Sounds like a job for traffic_calming !
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/traffic_calming/#values
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traffic_calming

And access
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/access/#values
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access

For the way that is blocked to wide vehicles by bollards, perhaps
hgv=no
and if the restriction is more specific, perhaps add,
maxwidth=width restriction in metres

http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/hgv/

For the "pinch", how about a node on the way
highway=traffic_calming
traffic_calming=choker

http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/traffic_calming/#values