[OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

[John Smith]

2009/9/20 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> This can be done without resorting to mapping each lane separately.  If you
> have a three lane road with no lane change restrictions or physical
> barriers, you map it as one way, with three lanes, with the position as the
> center of the three lanes.  When the road goes to two lanes, you map it as
> one way, with two lanes, with the position as the center of the two lanes.


I wasn't suggesting to map each lane separately, however an editor
could display lanes and it would be so much better to display them as
parallel ways which could be edited if they needed to be.