[Tagging] Dispute on highway=mini_roundabout
Toby Murray
toby.murray at gmail.com
Thu May 10 18:25:47 BST 2012
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/10/2012 11:52 AM, fly wrote:
>>>
>>> Why should we have two tags for roundabouts which differe only in size.
>>> We do not do this with other objects/tags.
>>
>> waterway=ditch/canal and stream/river?
>>
>> (By the way, we don't currently have two node tags for roundabouts. Hence
>> the current situation.)
>
> Agreed, for a long time I used highway=mini_roundabout for cul-de-sacs
> with islands (usually planted with trees).
>
> I propose we start accepting junction=roundabout to be used on nodes.
> This shouldn't produce any problems for data consumers, is logical,
> and would save a lot of time for tagging the many small roundabouts
> that exist especially in residential areas.
I think I would be willing to go with this solution. It seems the
people who actually have mini roundabouts around them are very adamant
about their meaning. While I don't really see harm in using it in
slightly different circumstances where true mini roundabouts don't
exist, I think putting junction=roundabout on nodes is acceptable as
well.
the JOSM validator will need to be updated to allow this tag on a node
without complaining and not require a highway=* tag to go along with
it. Mapnik can probably use the same symbol for both. Anything else
need to change? (aside from the wiki of course)
Toby
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