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

[John Smith]

2009/8/28 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>:

> This does bring up a few more combinations that are not currently
> covered. I've had a couple of runs over to Milton Keynes in the last
> couple of days, and GETTING into the correct lane even to go straight on
> can be a problem, with the outside lane of a pair forcing a right turn.

Exactly, the problem is being able to tag lanes would solve a number
of problems currently not solved.

> ( And I still think that complimenting highway=trunk with footway=? in
> this micromapping level makes more sense than additional highway=path
> for the pedestrian element of this )

A foot path attached to a road could just be another 'lane', but it
needs to be tagged differently than the road part.