[OSM-talk] road 'structures'

[Robin Paulson]

On 06/12/2007, Sven Grüner <sven at schunterscouts.de> wrote:
> What about roads where there is no structure at all separating the ways,
> just a thick white line. In Germany these are like a wall and anybody
> crossing these (ie. turning) will be barbecued by the chancellor and fed
> to the parliament as fingerfood, if yu catch my drift.
>
> Intentionally I'd tend to tag these as separate ways as well. But the
> wiki is only speaking about structural separations and there might be
> people who might consider these as an attribute of the way, because it's
> more like a traffic sign than something physical.
>
> Just asking,
> Sven
>
> Ps: I' looking forward for renderers using the proposed
> combined_ways-relation. Currently roads are shown twice the width only
> because there are 30cm of concrete in the middle.

replying to the osm list, assume your mail client missed the headers.....

what you are saying is a 'no right turn' or 'no left turn', and yes it
will be covered by relations. i haven't delved into it yet, lots of
simple stuff to do first, but there are a few words on the wiki i
think