[talk-au] Cul-de-sac

[Jim Croft]

ok - will give it a go.  my mental image of a turning circle may have
been more like a round about...

Canberra must have more of these things than any other .au city...

jim

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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