[OSM-talk] Ways divided by paint?

[Snusmumriken]

On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 13:44 +0000, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 July 2019, Snusmumriken wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 13:50 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > > I strongly disagree with this idea,
> > > and multiple times changed such splits
> > > back to one way.
> > 
> > I would consider that as an act of vandalism by removing ground
> > truth
> > information that your fellow mappers have gathered and encoded in
> > the
> > database.
> > 
> It is only vandalism if you loose information, if you are improving
> the mapping by changing such misleading information to correctly
> mapped turn lanes then it is improving the map.

Turn lane tagging is great and it certainly has its place osm mapping.
But in my experience of mapping it cannot replace the need to sometimes
split ways at a legal barrier to get a complete picture of how the
traffic can legally flow and thus provide a relevant routing
suggestion.