[Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net>wrote:

> At 2012-04-10 07:29, Mike N wrote:
>
>> On 4/10/2012 10:17 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>>> A roundabout (or mini_roundabout) implies to me (although it is not
>>> defined on the wiki) that there is more than one entry / exit road. So
>>> intuitively I'd say that is not an appropriate tag.
>>>
>>
>>  I agree, this is not a roundabout.  I use turning_circle, unless there
>> is an island in the middle, in which case I draw the circular way as used
>> in this example.
>>
>
> +1, unless I have a limited amount of time and a bunch of them with
> islands in a tract, and then I tag them as turning_circle, too. I don't
> think there's much difference here - it's about degrees of accuracy.
>
> I tag culs-de-sac as turning_circles and only draw a circular way when
there is an island in the middle.  But I have a question.  Where should the
turning_circle node be placed?  In the middle of the culs-de-sac or where
the street enters the culs-de-sac?

Clifford
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