[Talk-us] Roundabout changes on the wiki

[Nathan Edgars II]

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout
User Imagic has pushed through changes despite disagreement, and another 
editor blocked me from the wiki for making fixes to better match 
existing tagging.

Imagic is trying to enforce conflating junction=roundabout with the 
"modern roundabout", when it formerly included other traffic circles and 
rotaries. This means the wiki does not agree with existing tags on many 
circles. Instead of telling you to take the nth exit from the circle, a 
router will give you the bloody useless "bear left, bear left, bear 
left, bear right" if the junction=roundabout is removed.

I will ignore this garbage and continue to tag circles as 
junction=roundabout, just as I still use highway=mini_roundabout for 
circles mapped as nodes. I'll also use highway=motorway for freeways 
that allow bikes and peds and highway=motorway_junction for exits from 
non-motorways, even if some crusader decides to change the wiki definitions.