[talk-au] Cul-de-sac

[John Henderson]

As you say, I and others have been using the node tag 
"highway=turning_circle" for this.

It seems to neatly fit the bill:

"A turning circle is a rounded, widened area usually, but not 
necessarily, at the end of a road to facilitate easier turning of a 
vehicle."

John

Jim Croft wrote:
> Many of the residential 'dead ends' in Giralang are terminated by neat
> little blobs that render sort of like the turning radius at the ends
> of these streets.  This is not uniform practice across the ACT.
> 
> On inspection, these blobs are labelled 'turning circle'...  which
> seems a bit at the extreme end of the definition in these cases.
> 
> Should all dead ends with an expanded turning radius be terminated
> this way in OSM?  Need advice about what to do with the end of my
> street - and the others in the suburb...  :)
> 
> Interestingly, the ACT govt public maps deal with this in their
> on-line application by drawing the actual line of the curb as it
> curves out and around.
> 
> jim
>