[Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag

[Philip Barnes]

On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 14:08 +0200, Martin Vonwald (Imagic) wrote:
> Am 21.04.2012 um 13:34 schrieb "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen at helsinki.fi>:
> 
> > ...What I don't really care if it is called lanes=1.5 or 
> > lanes=1/2+some_other_agreed_tag_which_is_not_an_estimated_width=x, but 
> > simply saying that use lanes=1/2 alone instead I oppose.
> 
> I would recommend lanes=2 and width=xxx. Maybe give some examples for the widths of some common, "narrow" roads? Can someone provide photos and widths?

Without going too far from home.

This one is 4.4m
http://t.co/UcFtIpkx
http://osm.org/go/eu0E92UlP-
 
and complete with grass up the middle. This one is, I think 2.3m. Easy
to forget such things as others have said.
http://t.co/4DK09ahQ 
http://osm.org/go/eu0Fswir

Phil