2010/10/26 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> The amount of delay varies according to the traffic, particularly in cases >> where one cross-street is not required to stop at the intersection. I have >> encountered intersections where, at rush hour, you effectively can't make a >> left turn from the side street, or go straight across, because the traffic >> on the main road is continuous and the drivers don't choose to yield to the >> side-street traffic. > --- > Yeah, and now that I think about it, that has nothing to do with the > stop sign anyway. The stop sign itself generally adds just a fraction > of a second to your trip (if you obey them, anyway). I don't think > the stop sign in itself is going to be very directly useful for > routing. However, I can see a lot of uses for it combined with other > data, such as for statistical analysis. > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about putting stop signs beside the way at their actual position? >> This would indicate the direction automatically (dependent if the >> traffic is right or left-sided) and is error prone to direction >> changes of the way. > > Wouldn't work (in the US) if someone mapped the stop sign on the left > hand side of a one-way road.
Why wouldn't that work? If it's oneway it is clear anyway (as long as the mapper is not ___ enough to put the sign on the crossing itself). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
