[Tagging] Center turning lanes: centre_turn_lane=yes method vs. lanes:both_ways method

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Tristan Anderson <
andersontristan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've always used
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> lanes=5
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> centre_turn_lane=yes
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> as a shortcut that implies
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> lanes=5
> lanes:forward=2
> lanes:both_ways=1
> lanes:backward=2
> turn:lanes:both_ways=left
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> It's just a way to reduce five tags to two in a common, special-case
> situation.  Lanes can be any odd number greater than one.
>

I'm not sure of any data consumers that would assume that shorthand.  I
know Osmand correctly recognizes the latter, but would not parse the
former.
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