[OSM-talk] How can wide intersections be mapped?

[Simone Cortesi]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Robert Vollmert
<rvollmert-lists at gmx.net> wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 02:01, David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to represent an intersection that
>> is very wide: a traffic circle could placed in the middle without
>> moving the edges.
>>
>> I've tried adding extra ways for various ways across the
>> expanse but it doesn't look right.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.845598&lon=-122.236367&zoom=18&layers=B0FT
>>
>
> The area=yes highway=residential that's there now looks like a good
> solution. It's not clear it will render well, though.

I do have a similar problem with a canal in my soon-to-be mapped city.

the waterway=canal tag fit well for most of it, but does not look
right when the canal become wider, I've used also area=yea

http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=googlesat&mt1=tah&lon=9.1691208&lat=45.1790875&z=17