[OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes?

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
>Sent: 14 March 2008 6:03 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How do we tag passing/slow lanes?
>
>simon at mungewell.org wrote:
>
>> The only suggestion I had was to set lanes to '1+2', which would mean 1
>> lane in the forward direction (of the way) and 2 in the reverse
>direction.
>
>In Sweden, those are known as "2+1 roads".  They are becoming
>increasingly popular especially when combined with a cable barrier
>separating the oncoming traffic,
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2B1_road

That should be drawn as two separate ways because they are physically
separated with a median/central reservation strip, one with way tagged with
lanes=2 and the other lanes=1. Very similar to many "dual carriageways" in
the UK except that we rarely see the single only lane.

Cheers

Andy

>
>This is a type of road, just like "motorway", but most roads in
>OSM are tagged according to classification (primary, secondary,
>tertiary, unclassified).
>
>
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>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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