[Talk-us] (Was) How is Scout?

[Mike N]

On 7/18/2014 9:49 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
> I thought I'd read up on all the stuff I needed to tag lanes=*,
> lanes:forward=*, lanes:backward=*,  turn:lanes=*,
> turn:lanes:forward=*, turn:lanes:backward=*, etc. But I totally missed
> the existence of placement:*=*


   I totally missed *placement: also - it's mentioned only in passing at 
the bottom of one of the pages.    Lane marking appears to be a 
complicated system.   I downloaded the JOSM turnlanes plugin, but it 
wants to tag via relations.   In my experience, the relation method is 
nearly impossible to force onto the OSM topology for many intersections, 
so I gave up on that early.

    I found the JOSM "Lane and road attributes", but noticed that it's 
complaining about missing attributes on an intersection that I did but I 
think the style is wrong.   I'm going to dig into the code to see what 
it's doing.

    Needless to say, I don't expect newbies to easily pick up on lane 
tagging.    The good part about tagging lanes without relations is that 
they won't be breaking turn lane relations by accident.