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

[John Smith]

2009/8/28 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>:
> A Way can have many lanes, Infact the default is lanes=2 (or is it?)
>
> oneway=yes infers lanes=1

Seems like a sane assumption.

> A Lane may need to be in a relation etc.

The way would be the relation, and the properties of the way should
cascade to the lane, and then you can change the lane from the
defaults inherieted from the way.

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

No, that's highway=service, unless someone editted the wiki since I
last checked :)

In this context a lane is a portion of a way and I can't think of any
other name it would go by either.