[Tagging] Signal-controlled roundabouts

[Paul Johnson]

I'd call it a full blown roundabout, since you're still expected to go
around it to the right in order to go left.
On Jun 17, 2014 3:43 PM, "Tod Fitch" <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> How would you tag this intersection in Mountain View, California?
>
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+View,+CA/@37.387343,-122.080352,3a,89.9y,118.3h,70.82t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHblffm0KZ7pzUXLakrlBQw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x808fb7495bec0189:0x7c17d44a466baf9b
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> Should it be tagged as traffic_calming=island instead of
> highway=mini_roundabout?
>
> On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Not as rare as you think, and growing more common.  I go through 2 or 3
> roundabouts regularly.  The US official definitions defined in the MUTCD
> are that roundabouts are uncontrolled or have yield signs entering, traffic
> circles have stop signs.  Neither are signal controlled in the MUTCD.  We
> do not have anything equivalent to the mini roundabout in the US (and
> likely Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands) at all, so
> intersections tagged as such are probably wrong.
> >
>
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