[talk-au] Number of lanes?

[Ian Sergeant]

Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> Firstly I *thought* that lanes=2 was two lanes, one in each direction.
> Then reading the motorway definition I *thought* that lanes =2 was
> two in each
> direction
>
> How many lanes is two?

>From Map Features:

lanes Number of travel lanes in each (or only permitted) direction

So lanes=2 means two lanes in each direction.

(However, IMO this is a bad tag, it is confusing, and can't cope with
something as simple as different amount of lanes in each direction).

Ian.