Hi,
at the moment, there are not so many people who looked at my proposal for traffic_signals=crossing_only :
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/traffic_signals%3Dcrossing_only
 
I would look forward to some more people comment or vote on my proposal which has the aim to distingiush those highway=traffic_signals on "straight road" which control only a crossing from other types of traffic signals.
 
Current tagging (highway=crossing/crossing=traffic_signals, sometimes + button_operated=yes), does not allow to distinguish them clearly.
It carries potentially information because the traffic lights I mentioned have other circuits and are often activated on-demand only.
 
If questions comment either here or maybe rather on the discussion page.
 
--Lukas
Gesendet: Freitag, 01. Mai 2020 um 14:05 Uhr
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Betreff: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - traffic_signals=crossing_only

Hello to everyone,

Voting has opened for the proposal of traffic_signals=crossing_only – see the proposal page here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/traffic_signals%3Dcrossing_only

 

(please note the old name was traffic_signals=crossing_on_demand, but I changed that because the focus is not on the „on demand“, but on the „traffic lights for only a crossing“).

 

It has been discussed about on the mailing list at 2020-04-13 and a few days after.

 

The proposal's purpose:

traffic_signals=crossing_only marks those highway=traffic_signals which do only control a crossing

 

Why?

It's interesting for routers concerning penalty times (much lower on those points than for a junction) and at the moment, there is no real way to mark that:

 

highway=traffic_signals + crossing=traffic_signals is used together on the same node, but NOT only in those cases where there is a „crossing-only“ traffic light. It's also used on junctions. We discussed that it would be difficult to change that, because highway=traffic_signals + crossing=traffic_signals is an accepted tagging and can be used together also when the exact locations of the crossings - at a junction - are not known and in some other cases.

 

highway=traffic_signals + crossing=traffic_signals + button_operated=yes can be used, but with looking just at button_operated=yes, this does not mean that there is only a crossing and not a traffic junction. Crossings at junctions can have buttons for pedestrians, too, example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3070180267

So the solution would be to add another under-category for highway=traffic_signals, as traffic_signals=* does it already.

--Lukas

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