[talk-au] Question about lanes

[John Henderson]

Mark Pulley wrote:
> I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip  
> there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are  
> labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a  
> painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these, but I  
> wanted to check what to use if the road (residential or unclassified)  
> doesn't have centre line markings. Should we use "lanes=1" only if  
> it's narrow, or in all residential roads without lane markings? (or  
> leave the tag off completely?) What do other people do?

If the road is two-way traffic (you can drive in either direction), I 
use the lanes tag only if the number of lanes is greater than two.

If the road has one-way traffic, I use the lanes tag for each way, but 
only if the number of lanes in that direction is greater than one.

John H