On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/3/2011 10:30 AM, sergio sevillano wrote: >> >> El 03/09/2011, a las 12:10, Nathan Edgars II escribió: >> >>> On 9/3/2011 6:06 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >>>> >>>> highway=traffic_signals means "this intersection is governed by traffic >>>> signals". >>>> If you want a tag for "there is a physical signal here", use a >>>> different one. Using highway=traffic_signals for this will lose >>>> important information about what intersections have signals (for >>>> example, a router can no longer say "turn left at the second signal"). >>> >>> Actually this is a bad example, since there are many reasons for having >>> more than one traffic_signals node at an intersection. But when turning onto >>> a trunk from a residential, for example, a router will want to put you out >>> at a traffic signal, and this is much easier when the intersection node is >>> clearly labeled. >>> >> >> are we mapping reality or "for the router" ? > > Both. Reality is that the intersection is controlled by traffic signals.
The intersection of the roads is not equal to the intersection of the ways. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
