[OSM-talk] tagging roads

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Blaž Lorger <blaz.lorger at triera.net> wrote:

> Specifying actual or at least estimated width is only way
> to ensure that data 
> is universally usable. I guess heavy truck driver would not
> be amused when 
> navigation system would direct him in 3m wide residential
> street, while car 
> driver would only see it as a problem when passing another
> car.

Actually the only way to get consistent road width estimates is to calculate it based on lanes, otherwise you will get a wide range of subjective values because people will estimate differently no matter what you do or say or write on a wiki.

Counting lanes = easy
estimating road width = nightmare