[OSM-talk] highway=turning_circle

[Jonathan Bennett]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> There are even turning circles around a house or with parking lots in
> the middle.

Those aren't turning circles -- a turning circle is just a wider, 
usually rounded piece of road to allow vehicles to turn where there 
wouldn't otherwise be space.

Here's what I was mapping when I proposed the tag:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.229439,-0.615819&spn=0.000929,0.001711&t=k&z=19

If there is something in the middle, I map these as a circle of highway, 
like here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.22689&lon=-0.585023&zoom=18&layers=B00FT

See

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.226906,-0.584923&spn=0.000929,0.001711&t=k&z=19

for an aerial view.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)