[OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:32 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Actually there is still a junction from when it goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane, and the (usually in .au) give way sign is before the junction of the 2 lanes into one.

Only if the lanes are marked as separate ways, which they normally
wouldn't be for a narrow road.

> Neither of these cases need fudging, in the case of railway=level_crossing it's already in wide spread usage, as for 2 lanes to one this can still be done via proximity searches.

Look, if you insist that a "proximity search" is a better way to
relate a way to a node, as opposed to a relation, I respectfully
disagree. I've got nothing more to say :)