[Tagging] tagging of a throughabout

Lukas Sommer sommerluk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 13:46:00 UTC 2014


Thanks for the clarification!

2014-06-30 9:11 GMT, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2014-06-29 19:11 GMT+02:00 Lukas Sommer <sommerluk at gmail.com>:
>
>> How do I tag correct a Hamburger roundabout/throughabout/cut-through (see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Hamburger_roundabout.2Fthroughabout.2Fcut-through
>> for a description).
>>
>
>
> I would probably tag this in analogy to a "Y"-shaped junction, a
> "T"-junction or a cloverleaf interchange: map the individual roads. End.
>
> It is not a roundabout, so there are no additional generally approved tags.
> Of course you could also add a junction=hamburger_roundabout, why not. (The
> only risk is that the next armchair mapper, improving the map remotely,
> would probably change this to roundabout because "hamburger-roundabout" is
> not in his canon of acceptable tags).
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>


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Lukas Sommer



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