[talk-au] Road centerline?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Yeah, spotted the same on the ones I looked at.

So, is it trying to get the truck to drive across the middle of the
roundabout, or just calculating the shortest, straight-line distance for
planning purposes?

Thanks

Graeme


On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 18:04, Nev W <nevwosm2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked quite a few and they have all been a straight line through parts
> where the highway is segregated or a straight line through roundabouts and
> associated with freight routes.
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> On 11 Oct 2022, at 5:26 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Message left on one of their changesets to ask what they're trying to do,
> but hasn't mapped for 2 year so not holding my breath on a reply.
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 17:01, Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Graeme,
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>> I would certainly ask the user as they all seem to be something to do
>> with australia_freight relation (over 3 years old). May even have been used
>> to select ways in relation to freight routes around the country.
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>> There is only two others worldwide and no documentation re the tagging
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>> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mE4
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>> Cheers - Phil
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>> *From:* Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 October 2022 5:15 PM
>> *To:* Nev W <nevwosm2 at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] Road centerline?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Nev!
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>> Looks like the next project is going through & deleting them all!
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>> Thanks
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>>
>> Graeme
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>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 15:48, Nev W <nevwosm2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Using http://overpass-turbo.eu/ to find road=centerline in Australia
>> there are quite a few of these and all by the same mapper.
>>
>> I only checked Australia but assume there would be others elsewhere
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>> https://imgur.com/a/FVFsa4l
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>> On 11 Oct 2022, at 3:23 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Just spotted this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/679847388
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>> What's a "road=cent*er*line [sic]"?
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>> Thanks
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>>
>>
>> Graeme
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