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

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 17:51:27 BST 2009


2009/8/31 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:

> And that's part of what's wrong with it.  You still haven't explained how to
> handle stop signs on bi-directional, one lane road.  You haven't explained
> how to handle lane-changes.  You require ways to be split every time the
> number of lanes changes (though I guess any system with "lanes=*" does
> that).  You don't explain how to record where lanes can be changed and where
> they can't.  You require adding children to every single bi-directional road
> in the world that merely has a stop sign.

I'm still unsure where you get this idea that I think a way needs to
be split, just like a relation joins multiple ways, a way joins
multiple lanes.

> It is a reason to do it.  But it's a reason to do it right.

How would you do it?




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