<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM ipswichmapper--- via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossing%3Dpriority#Tagging" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossing%3Dpriority</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is my first proposal for a tag to describe pedestrian crossings where the pedestrian has right of way over all vehicles on the road from the moment they have indicated their intent to cross. I created this because "crossing=zebra" or "crossing=marked" aren't clear enough. Please read the proposal for more details.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In a number of places that I've lived or visited, marked crossings (zebra or others) indicate the pedestrian has the right-of-way. For example, where I live now, Washington State, it's the law that pedestrians have righ-of-way in a marked crosswalk. In all those many places adding the tag crossing=priority would be redundant. It would also effectively do away with crossing=marked which has over 1M uses[1]. Many of us were very happy when crossing=marked was added because zebra didn't exactly fit. What crossing=marked does is give the ability to easily verify what's literally on the ground, even visible from good aerial imagery. </div><div><br></div><div>If you believe that we need a priority tag, then I suggest creating one that doesn't effectively depreciate crossing=marked. I'd also suggest explaining how a mappers is expected to know if the pedestrian has priority. </div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/crossing#values">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/crossing#values</a></div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>