Deleting the empty turn:lenes.md

Workflow to delete the wrongly tagged turn lanes

• Extracted all the wrongly tagged turn lanes using Overpass turbo:

Query used in overpass turbo

/*
This has been generated by the overpass-turbo wizard.
The original search was:
“turn:lanes='||||' or turn:lanes='|||' or turn:lanes='||' or turn:lanes='|'”
*/
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
  way["turn:lanes:backward"="||||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:backward"="|||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:backward"="||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:backward"="|"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:forward"="||||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:forward"="|||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:forward"="||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes:forward"="|"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes"="||||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes"="|||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes"="||"]({{bbox}});
  way["turn:lanes"="|"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

• There are a total of 4206 wrongly tagged turn lanes
• Extracted each tag separately and loaded the extracted data into JOSM
• Activated the type:node filter in JOSM with an active hide option
• Selected all the loaded roads in JOSM and deleted the appropriate tag and uploaded it back to OpenStreetMap

Assigned tag	Number
turn:lanes:backward=*	1905
turn:lanes:forward="|"	1650
turn:lanes:forward="||"	233
turn:lanes:forward="|||"	3
turn:lanes="|"	241
turn:lanes="||"	94
turn:lanes="|||"	28
turn:lanes="||||"	52
Total	4206