[OSM-talk] Wide roads and traffic signals

[Stephen Hope]

If you can't cross from one side to another anywhere, then it should
be marked as two separate ways.

When you have a twoway road connect to one of these,  it will connect
to each side, with a little crossing piece in the middle. When you
have two such roads connect, then it will look like a hash symbol (#)
with four nodes.  Each of these nodes would have a traffic light tag
if there were lights.

Stephen

2008/6/25 Moshe Sayag <msayag at gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to map my area (that is very sparsely mapped in OSM
> currently), so I bought a GPS device and started cycling / driving
> around and edit my tracks.
> The results so far can be seen at
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.1878&lon=34.8714&zoom=14&layers=B00FT
> (Notice that the street names is not shown in Mapnik but only in Osmarender)
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. How do I map a wide road with a separation (line of trees) between
> the two directions?
> Something like:
>
> -->-->-->-->-->-->
> -->-->-->-->-->-->
> *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
> <--<--<--<--<--<--
> <--<--<--<--<--<--
>
> Do I set it as a one two-way road or two one-way roads?
>
> 2. If I set it as two separate ways, how do I mark traffic signals
> (traffic lights) where two such roads cross each other?
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
>