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

[Gervase Markham]

Bruce Cowan wrote:
> While thinking about the many roads up here that are single tracked,
> it'd be quite useful to be able to map them properly. The result was
> passing places [0]. I am under the impression that lanes=1 means 1 lane
> each way, but this makes these roads impossible. I'd quite like another
> tag, such as narrow=true (or something non-boolean) which would mean the
> lanes number is number of lanes overall as opposed to in either
> direction.

There is currently a proposal for "narrow=true", coming out of a 
requirement for canals, but it's probably more meant for places where a 
particular way is narrower than its standard width. It would be odd to 
apply it to an entire road.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Narrows

Gerv