[Tagging] Really big junction=roundabout

fly lowflight66 at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 28 17:35:10 UTC 2013


On 28.06.2013 17:41, A.Pirard.Papou wrote:
> On 2013-06-28 16:26, Elliott Plack wrote :
>> Hello OSM friends. Another member of the community asked if I think
>> that a circulator road around a large athletics facility (RFK Stadium
>> in Wash. DC) would be considered a roundabout. Here is one of the ways
>> in it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/51369536
>>
>> This round, one-way road does act somewhat like a roundabout, and
>> might be nice to have tagged so routing software can interpret it as
>> such. That way the computer can say, "take the third exit to 123ZYY road."
>>
>> Thoughts?
> This reminds me Bracknell, Berks
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.41363&mlon=-0.75054&zoom=15>,
> where, in my youth time, I discovered real size roundabouts compared to
> the toy ones I see over here, especially those built lately (1).
> They have one with a "Met office" inside and even one with a piece of
> railway between two bridges.
> It's lovely to have things inside, I've seen cow statues, for the
> amusement of the children while dad revolves 5 times waiting for mum to
> have found their way on OSM.
> And yes they tag all that as roundabouts, strangely enough in several
> pieces and they're one-way, mind you.

You do not have any choice if you want to correctly tag bus routes and
even sometimes normal route=road.

Had to correct one with traffic_lights -> no roundabout

fly



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