[Tagging] Lane geometry in OSM

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Fri Aug 3 15:05:35 UTC 2018



Am 03.08.2018 um 16:30 schrieb djakk djakk:
> I think it is less verbose. 
>
That isn't necessarily a positive (just as in programming languages).

> There can be multiple ways to express something in osm, like in the
> Ruby language ?
>
While that is certainly the case in OSM, introducing alternative tagging
just to make things difficult is likely not going to make anybody happy.

Simon

>
> djakk
>
>
> Le ven. 3 août 2018 à 16:21, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com
> <mailto:marc.gemis at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>     while this might work, why would you try to replace an established
>     tagging system ?
>     The tagging system turn:lanes:xxx is  supported by several data
>     consumers (OsmAnd, maps.me <http://maps.me>, MagicEarth and
>     probably others).
>     In many countries people worked on tagging all roads with this system
>     after a project set up by the German community.
>
>     m.
>     On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 4:10 PM djakk djakk <djakk.djakk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:djakk.djakk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hello !
>     >
>     > What about a tagging method like this :
>     >
>     > lanes=3
>     > lane_2=forward_direction;left_turn
>     >
>     >  or
>     >
>     > lanes=3
>     > lane_2:direction=forward
>     > lane_2:turn=left
>     >
>     >  instead of
>     >
>     > lanes=3
>     > lanes:forward=2
>     > turn:lanes:forward=left|through
>     >
>     >  ?
>     >
>     >
>     > djakk
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Le ven. 3 août 2018 à 13:13, Lionel Giard
>     <lionel.giard at gmail.com <mailto:lionel.giard at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>     >>
>     >> If you look at the wiki page about different lanes tagging (
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes ), you can see that a
>     suggested way of tagging (in "Examples/Motorways") is using letter
>     to indicate which lane goes to where (when there is a transition).
>     This could be used to extent the width tagging for transition lane
>     (where one lane split to two (or conversely). There are already a
>     lot of possibility to tag detailed lanes, but we could indeed add
>     the width in it !
>     >>
>     >> PS: sorry for the previous message, i miss-clicked.
>     >>
>     >> 2018-08-03 13:08 GMT+02:00 Lionel Giard <lionel.giard at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lionel.giard at gmail.com>>:
>     >>>
>     >>> If you look at the wiki page about different lanes tagging (
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes ), you can see that a
>     suggested w
>     >>>
>     >>> 2018-08-02 23:56 GMT+02:00 Tom Hardy <rhardy702 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:rhardy702 at gmail.com>>:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> I've experimented a bit with lane and road attributes as in
>     >>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/505256201 and the adjoining
>     intersection.
>     >>>> No width, but number, function and placement of lanes.  For
>     placement, I
>     >>>> always selected the center of the throughway.  This allows
>     renderers that pay
>     >>>> no attention to lane attributes to render a straight line
>     through an
>     >>>> intersection.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> JOSM's "Enhanced lane and road attributes" visualizer shows
>     this quite well.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> --
>     >>>> Tom Hardy <rhardy702 at gmail.com <mailto:rhardy702 at gmail.com>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
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