[OSM-talk] tagging roads

[Marc Schütz]

Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 11:49:11 schrieb Blaž Lorger:
> On Sunday 02 August 2009 10:59:08 John Smith wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Blaž Lorger <blaz.lorger at triera.net> wrote:
> > > I also propose extending instructions for road
> > > classification to use width tag
> >
> > I agree with everything else you wrote except width since I really don't
> > want to get a tape measure out and measure widths of roads, using lanes=*
> > to estimate widths would be more sensible and is already in use.
>
> Unfortunately lanes only specifies number of lanes. In general every road
> that is not one way has at least 2 lanes, even if it is narrow, say 3.5
> meters.

Yes, but equally unfortunately width only specifies width, and not the number 
of lanes. Therefore, it would be nice to have both.

Regards, Marc

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