[talk-au] Over taking sections on highways

[John Smith]

On 26 July 2010 20:56, James Livingston <lists at sunsetutopia.com> wrote:
> On 26/07/2010, at 7:12 PM, John Smith wrote:
>> How do people tag over taking sections on highways where there is no
>> physical separation between oncoming traffic?
>
> I've never tagged them before, but there is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:overtaking for marking where overtaking is legal. A fairly obvious extension to that would be overtaking=lane/lane_opposite/lane_both, similar to what cycleway=* uses.

Not exactly what I'm after, that just indicates if you are allowed to
overtake (access tagging) where as I'm thinking about a section of
(usually) highway that periodically allows over taking without
crossing into the lane(s) with oncoming traffics.

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-25.644979,152.637286&z=19&t=k&nmd=20100713