[HOT] zebra crossing

[Bryan Housel]

Hi John,
I’m happy to change the preset in iD to make it more clear.   Maybe we should just offer 2 presets that differentiate between “Marked Crosswalk” (aka `crossing=zebra`) and “Unmarked Crossing”?

This is an odd one because “Zebra Crossing” seems to be a well known thing in British English, but is unknown in American English.  In the United States people were asking me for a crosswalk preset, and we saw new mappers skipping crosswalks entirely because they didn’t know that `crossing=zebra` was the correct thing. Also, at the time the OSM wiki was confusing - it seemed to imply that all crossings were zebras - not sure if that is still the situation.

Thanks, Bryan



> On Jun 21, 2015, at 8:57 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can we do anything about this?
> 
> Thanks John
> 
> On 21 June 2015 at 20:08, Marcos Oliveira <marcosoliveira.2405 at gmail.com <mailto:marcosoliveira.2405 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> You are indeed right John, if you select a node belonging to a highway the crosswalk element appears in the tagging list. The result gives you an element with both highway=crossing and crossing=zebra tags.
> 
> 2015-06-21 23:50 GMT+01:00 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>>:
> That's what is being tagged.  Quite often on paths or footways or even tracks in very remote parts of the world.  I've seen maybe four in West Africa, one or two have turned up in Nepal, recently one appeared in Bangladesh.
> 
> Cheerio John 
> 
> On 21 June 2015 at 18:45, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zebra_crossing <https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zebra_crossing>
> 
> Is this what is being mapped?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:59 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I'm seeing a number of these on different projects.  They could be put in for fun but I suspect there are too many,they seem to come from inexperienced mappers I suspect using iD.
> 
> A possible undocumented feature or too easy to add? There seems often to be two tags involved on the node which would be unlikely if it was done for fun.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks John
> 
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