[talk-au] Tagging one lane cattle grids

Ewen Hill ewen.hill at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 04:20:05 UTC 2025


Hi Mark,
   I think your proposal to have a short section of one lane road would be
a better alternative than on the node for most renderers and navigation
aides however I am just guessing that.

Ewen

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 at 12:39, Mark Pulley <mark.pulley1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On my recent outback NSW trip I came across many one lane cattle grids.
> These are explicitly signposted as one lane (and are only wide enough for
> one vehicle).
>
> In the past I have tagged these on the node as:
>
> barrier=cattle_grid
> lanes=1
>
> (The lanes tag is generally used on ways rather than nodes.)
>
> Is there a better way to tag this on the node?
>
> Alternatively, should I split the way on either side of the grid, and add
> lanes=1 to the short segment of road that crosses the grid? (The remainder
> of the road is not one lane.)
>
> Mark P.
>
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Warm Regards

Ewen Hill
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