[OSM-talk] How to tag lanes, not ways, was: Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

[Peter Childs]

Sorry for thinking out loud but here we go.

A Way can have many lanes, Infact the default is lanes=2 (or is it?)

oneway=yes infers lanes=1

lanes can be used for many purposes including turning, parking, walking cycling.

Lanes need names I guess partially if we all going to use them to
describe pavements, cycle tracks etc

This sounds like a new data structure. Could put it in a standard
syntax for tags but that sounds like a very dirty solution.

so I'm thinking this will need new tables, and API enhancements.

Each Lane need to carry tags like a way.

Each Lane needs to have a "parent" way

A Lane may need to be in a relation etc.

I'm thinking Lane is a way without any nodes, but a "Parent" way
(which has the nodes) and some tags to say where it is in the way.

Hmm I don't think Lane is a good name, might get confused with the
other kind of Lane (Small Uncalssiffied Road)

Peter.