[Tagging] Signal-controlled roundabouts

[Fernando Trebien]

The routing app could also say "go to the first circle and then take
the second exit" and it would be well understood too, I think. If the
user is aware of the differences between a roundabout and a traffic
circle, he/she will even know beforehand if they're supposed to
stop/yield at the entrances or inside the ring.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-06-18 8:38 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com>:
>
>> As the Wikipedia article shows, the original French sign for roundabout
>> implied the priorité a droite and is identical to the one shown in the
>> Croatian example
>> (https://maps.google.hr/?ll=45.492397,15.549753&spn=0.004543,0.00883&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.492457,15.549814&panoid=606WGc-Rt8U3f-UU0k0WLQ&cbp=12,196.42,,0,11.92)?
>> Janko may be able to confirm that the Croatian Highway Code gives the
>> priority to the right in roundabouts.
>
>
> No, this is an exception in Croatia. Croatian Highway Code is the same as
> elsewhere in Europe, traffic inside the roundabout has right of way.
>
> It just seems to me that we should call this a roundabout because anyone
> that sees this thinks "roundabout" as a first thought, even without the
> sign. Maybe a strange roundabout, but a roundabout. If a routing application
> says "go to the first roundabout and then take the second exit" everybody
> will know how to follow those instructions. If an application says "turn
> right at the first junction, and then right at the second junction" no one
> will know what it's trying to say.
>
> I've never heard of this "turning circle" term. Maybe we should call this a
> turning circle, and then beg routing application developers to treat it the
> same as roundabout.
>
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