On 12/03/10 08:39, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Luke Woolley<lswool...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Personally, since NearMap became available, i've been placing traffic light >> tags at every thick white stop line at the intersection, which means for a >> standard intersection, there are 4 traffic light nodes. > > What's the benefit of this rather than, say, one traffic light node on > the centre of the intersection? Is the exact location of the light > itself important? I'm comparing this approach to the Melway, which > uses a big purple circle across the intersection to indicate the > presence of traffic lights, mostly as a landmark I guess.
The benefit is in greater accuracy and completeness. If we can do better than commercial street directories, then why not? To my mind, it's a bit like deciding whether to make a minor road with a concrete dividing strip a divided road or just a two-lane, two-way single road. > The extra detail of individual lights might be more of a pain in the > arse than actually useful? Insisting that everyone do it that way would be a pain. But if the information is available then I see no problem in my capturing it if convenient. Nor to I see any pain caused to the user of the more complete maps. And you never know when accurate information might prove useful. John H _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
