[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 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:

> Right, and at an intersection which has a turning lane, there is a
> restriction on a per-lane basis.  You can only turn left from the turning
> lane - you can only go straight (or possibly right) from the other lanes.
>  So do you propose splitting the way at every turning lane?

How would using relations solve this either?

> I guess for the most part we don't.  We could just split the way up into
> multiple lanes as necessary and then merge them back together.  Still no
> need for an extra table or children, though.

I guess we have to agree to disagree then, you seem to be trying to
fit things into the existing frame work for the sake of it and it's an
ugly hack.