[OSM-talk] tagging roads

[Liz]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, 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.

this is a sensible suggestion, but may i note that there is the "road reserve" 
which is a certain size - here in Australia actually surveyed in chains ( a 
very old, old measure)
and then a visible road inside that which may be much narrower 

so i'm not really sure what is the road width when i see these