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

[JigPu]

On Sunday, August 30, 2009, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Anthony<osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> You want to have two completely different ways to tag stop
>> signs?  What's your solution?  Stop signs are directional, whether they are
>> lane based or not.
>
> +1 - I agree with Tobias and Anthony. John, I know you feel that
> solving the "lane" problem will solve the "stop sign" problem (indeed
> it might), but the stop sign problem *can be solved independently* (by
> indicating the direction or the junction to which it applies), and is
> a simpler problem to solve - so I think we should go ahead with this
> and vote for either the use of a way+node relation or a node+direction
> tag to denote a stop sign (I vote for relation for several reasons).
>
>> That makes no sense.  You want to have lanes instead of ways?
>>
>> Lanes are ways.
>
> +1
>
> John, perhaps we're missing something. Why do you want to add more
> tables to the DB? I don't see why you think using a relation is a
> "hack". You said, "just like a relation joins multiple ways, a way
> [should join] multiple lanes." From the wiki: "relations are basically
> groups of objects in which each object may take on a specific role."
> This sounds suitable for what you're suggesting. Have you seen
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lane_and_lane_group,
> for example?
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Couldn't have said it better myself.