[talk-au] secondary_link

[Darrin Smith]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:15:00 +1030
Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au> wrote:

> > > Where
> > > residential roads have slip lanes, they often have addresses on
> > > them (cf. slip lanes on more major roads), so would need to
> > > verify which street at the junction those addresses belong to
> > > (quick look at street numbers for continuity should do the
> > > trick), then name the slip lane accordingly.
> > > 
> > > As an alternative for use with highway=unclassified &
> > > highway=residential, would tagging the slip lanes and/or central
> > > turning lanes as highway=service be suitable?
> > 
> > Ah now you are talking about 'turn left anytime with care' type
> > lanes where the "_link" option kind of fits, my thoughts were once
> > I realised anything < secondary wouldn't work with _link and given
> > they're generally pretty rare just label them as the existing road
> > type with name.
> 
> Where they have addresses on them, so we can verify what street
> they're part of, I agree. Where they don't have addresses on them,
> there's no way of knowing for sure which of the two intersecting
> streets they form part of, so I don't think a name would be
> appropriate.

That's a good call, those are the ones where "highway=service" rises to
the occasion I think :)
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