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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah. So I think the issue here is whether a lane can be:
>
> 1) explicitly traced out as a "way" (i.e. series of nodes), or
> 2) assumed to follow the same path as the "parent" way
>
> If a lane is related to its adjacent lanes and "parent" way through
> the use of a relation, I think 1) is necessary. Right? Because the
> members of
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lane_and_lane_group,
> for example, are themselves ways (i.e. series of nodes)?
>

I'm really not familiar enough with that proposal to say.  But you do raise
a good point that 1 and 2 seem to be mutually exclusive.
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