Would you please substantiate your statements with any evidence that makes you believe that completely correct tagging following currently accepted best practices is incorrect? Or why you believe that a way can't be split into segments when different tags apply to them? Or why you categorically state that accepted and used tag can't be added?

And finally, why you believe that any of these misunderstandings on your part justify the rather extensive campaign of reverting other peoples valid work that you seem to have been on for a while, looking at your changeset history.

TIA.

I'm sorry, I haven't got the slightest clue what you are actually trying to say here. Would you please lay out in detail your reasoning and thoughts on this?

It's important to understand that while the osm.wiki/Proposal_process can help with hammering out the details of a tag and making sure that it's exactly definition has widespread support, it is not mandatory for a tag to have gone through the proposal process and having been successfully voted on for that tag to be used.

In the end this comes down to one of the basic principles of OSM: osm.wiki/Any_tags_you_like

In regards to area:highway specifically, while there isn't a successfully voted on and accepted proposal, what exists on documentation so far is generally accepted as a reasonable way to map these types of things.

"turning_circle" is really a bad name of the tag, but it is what we have. It is used to tag a lot of things which are designed to support turning but which aren't necessarily circles.

The areas I tagged this way are specifically designed do support turning. That little way that goes off to the side has no purpose beyond allowing the garbage truck to be able to turn here (which is why there is also signs that prohibits parking in these 2 little stubby parts during the hours each week when the garbage truck normally operates).

highway=turning_circle is meant to be tagged on a node. Yes.

turning_circle=x is an additional tag which can be added to a highway=turning_circle to clarify the nature of the turning "circle".

In this case it's used on a area:highway=turning_circle, analog to a highway=turning_circle, to further clarify that type of turning point this is.

Like with other real turning "circles" there can be driveways going of that area.

Fundamentally, the areas I tagged this way exist in the shape they do primarily because they allow turning at this point for larger vehicles.

Just because it's "not necessary" is not reason to remove it.

The tag serves as documentation that someone actually reviewed the situation and made sure the road is not oneway. Something that is very common in inner cities like here.

I'm not sure why there is an urgent need to verschlimmbessern the mapping here...

Hi, would you mind letting us know what's your rational for deleting seemingly the whole of the Perth Bicycle Network? As far as I can tell, these all still exist as signed routes on the ground?

Hi, would you mind letting us know what's your rational for deleting seemingly the whole of the Perth Bicycle Network? As far as I can tell, these all still exist as signed routes on the ground?