[Talk-us] tagging cul-de-sacs

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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>> At 2012-04-10 07:29, Mike N wrote:
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>>> On 4/10/2012 10:17 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>  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.
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>> +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.
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> 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?

I leave it off and tag it one-way in the legal direction of travel
around the loop (counterclockwise).