[talk-au] Over taking sections on highways

[James Livingston]

On 26/07/2010, at 9:05 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 26 July 2010 20:56, James Livingston <lists at sunsetutopia.com> wrote:
>> On 26/07/2010, at 7:12 PM, John Smith wrote:
>> 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

I know what an overtaking lane is :)  I meant you could tag that as overtaking=lane to indicate there is an overtaking lane, equivalent to how you'd tag it cycleway=lane to indicate there is a cycle lane along side.

Either that or tag it as lanes=3 and somehow indicate which direction the extra lane is in. As far as I recall, the rules for an "overtaking" lane aren't any different to the right hand lanes of a two-each-way road when it's over 80km/hr, they're just signposted so you know when they are coming up.