[OSM-talk] How to use lanes= for two way single track roads?

[DavidD]

According to map features the value for the lanes key should be.

"Number of travel lanes in each (or only permitted) direction"

I've been tagging to this definition.

"Number of travel lanes on the way"

This makes more sense to me because you can tag two way single lane
roads with lanes = 1. The map features definition on the other hand
doesn't give an obvious way to tag these roads. lanes = 0.5 perhaps.

I didn't pick up the lanes tag from map features but some other wiki
page. I'm sure the wiki page defined the lanes key similarly to my
definition. Unfortunately I know can't find that wiki page to check.

Was the lanes tag added to map features wrongly?

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DavidD