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

[John Smith]

2009/8/31 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/31 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
>> No, it's a redesign of the whole system.  A system which wasn't made for
>> per-lane routing information.
>
> It wasn't designed with relations either, but they now exist too.
>
> In any case I've only suggested a minor change to add children to ways
> and how this could be represented as one table for the DB and
> additional tags for ways. Not exactly redoing things from scratch.
>

Sorry it'd take 3 tables, one for lanes, one for nodes on those lanes
and one for lane tags.

As for per-lane routing, funnily enough people actually listed this as
a reason to do it, so you can have smarter routing.