You should see the simplest version mentioned sooner in all countries. Unfortunately recently I did not have time to continue on this task [current priority is release of "extended search", fix issues related to overflow of signed int for node id, ...]. I hope I will have better news for you "soon". thanks for patience Martin
Hi all, I wanted to make another "micro-step" towards better OSM lanes integration and from various counts it looked like that tag="'destination:lanes" could be the next step. The first change was acceptance both of "turn:lanes:forward" and "turn:lanes" as on many motorways only the second is available (with combination of "destinations:lanes"). I experiment with germany_osm_north (Aug 2013, because it is waiting in a queue). You should see it on Early Map Access within an hour ...
Well ... it works more-or-less OK for example like: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4099428 although probably more useful would be to handle tag="motorway_junction" instead (on previous exit).
On the other hand it is giving non-sense lane indication and signs on: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/206331862 destination:lanes = Hannover|Rotenburg/W;Bremen|Rotenburg/W;Bremen;Ehestorf turn:lanes = left|through|through;right Because left direction is connected with link against one-way, you will never see "Hannover" sign but instead "Rotenburg/W;Bremen". Wrong is probably also indication to the right, where you should see only "Ehestorf" and not all three cities "Rotenburg/W;Bremen;Ehestorf"??
Are you already considering the tag destination (without lanes) on the slip lanes? In most situations this (easier) tagging is sufficient and it is used much more often than destination:lanes, which - in my opinion - should only be used in complex situations.
Regarding the non-sense indication: you seem to imply that the tags relate to the end of the osm-way. This is not correct. In your example it is obvious, that the left direction can not be connected with the one-way link, therefore it must connect to the next osm-way in straight direction. You will not be able to create a lane assistance without building the connections between the lanes of separate osm-ways. For more complex situation I thought of introducing a relation (see [1]) to specify the lane connectivity. In this case such relation is not necessary as the correct connectivity could (and should) be estimated.
Please also have a look at [2]. Especially destination:ref is already in use.
The junction 206331862 as well as the one from German discussion http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.06144/13.69018 or directly http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40550100 requires "micro-routing", find connected roads, ignore non-car roads, reject oneway in opposite direction. This could be done automatically with some defined search radius (max 100m?), but it is not that simple to do it during data/MCA processing. I would like to make this step forward, but there is not much time left to October processing.
Regarding tag destination - it is not integrated yet, but it is collected now, so I would like to add it soon. thanks Martin