[Tagging] Dispute prevention: meaning of lanes tag
Ilpo Järvinen
ilpo.jarvinen at helsinki.fi
Fri Apr 27 10:54:26 BST 2012
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Andrew Errington wrote:
> A lane count of 1.5 is very confusing. What does it mean? What is the width
> of each lane? Is it really 1.5? Should it be 1.55, or 1.4, or 1.6?
...No, it's not multiple of some magical "default lane width" like you
imply. But simply _something_ between "normal" lanes=1 and "normal"
lanes=2.
> It's more useful to tell me width of the road. Then, if there is one
> lane I can see maybe it's very wide, or if two lanes I can see maybe
> they are very narrow.
...But how can I tag you this: A road which is lanes=1+wide _AND_
lanes=2+narrow at the same time? ...You ask me to provide width and select
one of those two, and that is what I oppose, unless you give me some real
tag that is not width to tell that 'hey, there really isn't lanes marked
(which makes it kind of lanes=1) but two can somewhat fit (which makes
it kind of lanes=2 but not really because it's only "somewhat")'!
...What I would not want to do is to tag those lanes=1 because that's
certainly a lie as anyone can clearly see after observing some
bidirectional traffic there.
> In summary, I think simpler is better. A non-integer lane count is useless.
> Use the width tag.
I oppose using width tag (at least alone) for this because it won't
convey the double meaning. Some other tag than width and tagging with
lanes=2 perhaps (like I already suggested much earlier)?
--
i.
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