[OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/12/3 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>

>
> divider=none, divider=legal, and divider=physical is about the only
> part of that proposal that I'm fairly sure would work.
>
> And divider=physical goes against current mapping principles.


yes, you will also loose positional accuracy and slightly different details
of the road, by assuming that 2 roads are the same. You loose the
possibility to map different maxspeeds, surfaces, etc. The routing-engines
will have to cope, if you don't understand this tag, routing won't work
anymore. This is definitely not a good alternative to separate mapping, but
it might be useful...


> ... As a
> sort of "todo" tag, I guess it isn't horrible, though.
>
divider=physical meaning "this should be a dual carriageway, but I
> don't really feel like doing all the work of mapping it that way".
>

+1

Fully ack.

cheers,
Martin
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