Hi John,
I’m happy to change the preset in iD to make it more clear.   Maybe we should 
just offer 2 presets that differentiate between “Marked Crosswalk” (aka 
`crossing=zebra`) and “Unmarked Crossing”?

This is an odd one because “Zebra Crossing” seems to be a well known thing in 
British English, but is unknown in American English.  In the United States 
people were asking me for a crosswalk preset, and we saw new mappers skipping 
crosswalks entirely because they didn’t know that `crossing=zebra` was the 
correct thing. Also, at the time the OSM wiki was confusing - it seemed to 
imply that all crossings were zebras - not sure if that is still the situation.

Thanks, Bryan



> On Jun 21, 2015, at 8:57 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Can we do anything about this?
> 
> Thanks John
> 
> On 21 June 2015 at 20:08, Marcos Oliveira <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You are indeed right John, if you select a node belonging to a highway the 
> crosswalk element appears in the tagging list. The result gives you an 
> element with both highway=crossing and crossing=zebra tags.
> 
> 2015-06-21 23:50 GMT+01:00 john whelan <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> That's what is being tagged.  Quite often on paths or footways or even tracks 
> in very remote parts of the world.  I've seen maybe four in West Africa, one 
> or two have turned up in Nepal, recently one appeared in Bangladesh.
> 
> Cheerio John 
> 
> On 21 June 2015 at 18:45, Mike Thompson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zebra_crossing 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zebra_crossing>
> 
> Is this what is being mapped?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:59 PM, john whelan <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I'm seeing a number of these on different projects.  They could be put in for 
> fun but I suspect there are too many,they seem to come from inexperienced 
> mappers I suspect using iD.
> 
> A possible undocumented feature or too easy to add? There seems often to be 
> two tags involved on the node which would be unlikely if it was done for fun.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks John
> 
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