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

[Saikrishna Arcot]

Yup, that's what I was thinking as well of using; I just wanted to check 
if there's a solid convention/reasoning of having HOV/express lanes that 
didn't have a physical barrier be mapped as separate ways.

Thanks!

On 9/24/23 06:58, Tod Fitch wrote:
> 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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Saikrishna Arcot
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