[Talk-us] Splitting a HOV/express land without physical barrier

[Tod Fitch]

I use the hov:lanes style tagging where there is no physical barrier. See the lanes section [1] on the same wiki page that you linked.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov#hov:lanes=*

> On Sep 23, 2023, at 10:09 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I see that currently, for one part of the I-405 express lane <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1007590306#map=16/47.7016/-122.1782> in Kirkland, WA, the express lanes are mapped as a separate way, even though there's no physical separation from the regular travel lanes except for a double solid white line. I think the accepted practice is that if there's no physical separation, then the lanes/road should be one single way, and not split out; however, the HOV wiki page <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov> says that if entry/exit is permitted only at certain points, then it's recommended to map it as a separate way. For these express lanes, entry/exit is not permitted across the double solid white line, and only in the dashed line areas, but it's not a single point; it can be a quarter-mile long.
> 
> In this case, should the express lanes on this road be fully separated out into its own ways, or should this be part of the main road?
> 
> -- 
> Saikrishna Arcot

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