Steve Hill wrote: > bicycle=yes|no > foot=yes|no > horse=yes|no Doing this for crossings is not right, IMO. It's a bad usage of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:access , or more specifically its 'helper' tags like foot=yes|no or bicycle=*. Consider:
* If two ways cross at a crossing Node, access keys would logically apply to both. Declaring that crossings are somehow special and that access tags on them apply only to the crossing traffic is worse. * The access tag is not documented as being applicable to Nodes. Most crossings will be Nodes. * In some jurisdictions, crossing traffic may have right of way at all times even on button-and-light-controlled crossings. Pushing the button merely stops road traffic and gives a safer period for crossing. So what we're talking about isn't always an access restriction or even an access permission. To keep things simple, and for the sake of the data, I would prefer something more like: crossing_traffic=<modes> Where <modes> would be a semicolon-separated list of the tag-names from the [[Key:access]] page. For example: crossing_traffic=foot;bicycle Presence of a value would indicate a) what sort of crossing traffic a motorist may expect, and b) what sorts of crossing traffic may use the crossing. To keep things simple, one would assume a default value of crossing_traffic=foot anywhere there's a crossing=* or a highway=crossing. Does that make sense to you guys? -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
