[talk-au] Cul-de-sac

[Roy Wallace]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On inspection, these blobs are labelled 'turning circle'...  which
>> seems a bit at the extreme end of the definition in these cases.

highway=turning_circle is right. Can be useful especially for those in
large cars/small trucks, to know that they can easily get back out of
the dead-end street..

> One pattern I'm seeing a lot of is a kind of Y or T shape at the end of the
> street, where each end of the Y provides room for maybe one car to park in
> front of a house. I'm mostly sort of ignoring them, not sure if they justify
> a whole extra way or not. A node tag would be nice, but I don't know what to
> call it.

IMHO they justify an extra way, as there is clearly a physical
separation and two separate areas of bitumen. (Go ahead and add a
"whole extra" node + way - HDD storage is cheap! :P)