> > Maybe crossing=marked + marked=??? > where ??? is the "type" of crossing - UK_zebra (as well as all their other > birds & animals!), US_zebra, EU_zebra & so on, so if you know exactly what > it is you can specify, but if you can only see a crossing marked there, you > can just call it a marked crossing? >
Isn't it obvious from the location what the country is? Crossings can have all sorts of markings. Most markings just indicate that it's a crossing, i.e. a preferred location for pedestrians to cross the road. Those markings result in the *=crossing tag. UK has a rich wildlife of crossings, but afaik all have controls except the zebra, so you can tag the control if you think it's worthwhile. Priority is regarded as a mappable attribute. It seems that, in many countries, zebra striping is used to grant priority to pedestrians. If mappers do not think crossing=zebra combined with the location is clear enough about the priority, then I suggest to add a tag for priority. In Nederland, zebra also implies drivers are not allowed to park on or within a certain distance from the crossing. If that's deemed important and should not just be implied by the zebra tag, it should be tagged on the section of the road itself. In Nederland, pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road near the zebra within a certain distance (50 m or so). This is important for pedestrian routing. I think this is handled already by the presence of the way for pedestrians. I may be wrong, but I believe routing over a way is preferred to crossing wildly over a road. In short, I think crossing=zebra says what you see, the implications can be read from the country the location is in, and if that's not sure enough tag the implications separately and precisely. Changing to crossing=marked then specifying that it's a zebra just makes it more work, and harder to interpret. Vr gr Peter Elderson_______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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