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<div>In some cases people may want to map pedestrian crossing<br></div><div><div><div><div>also as an area.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>My proposal is to map such areas as <br></div><div>area:highway=crossing / area:highway=bicycle crossing,<br></div><div>as an optional addition to already optional area:highway mapping.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example see<br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/655343334">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/655343334</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/655410319">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/655410319</a><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/654981687">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/654981687</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Would it be OK?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe area:highway=pedestrian_crossing would be better?<br></div><div>Or is it too much and something like that should not be mapped in OSM?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am not going to say that it is always useful or the most useful<br></div><div>part of mapping, but in some cases it will be actually used.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>In fact I actually used it in OpenStreetMap based map that was using <br></div><div>area:highway data - and delivered it to a school for a blind children<br></div><div>where it will be used. Photo of initial prototype is at<br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/matkoniecz/lunar_assembler/issues/26#issuecomment-842358431" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/matkoniecz/lunar_assembler/issues/26#issuecomment-842358431</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I mapped for now such areas as area:highway=crossing<br></div><div>I used area:highway=bicycle_crossing for bicycle-only crossing parts.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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