[Tagging] [Talk-us] stop signs

[Paul Johnson]

On 10/27/2010 10:24 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/10/27 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
>>
>>> One proposal for mapping stop signs is that the stop sign always faces
>>> opposite the nearest intersection.
>>
>> so let's discuss about this. I don't think it is a good idea to have
>> implicit facing, I would prefer to - at least in exceptional cases -
>> be able to define manually which is the facing of the sign, or better:
>> on which way at which point (intersection) there is a stopping
>> obligation.
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much what I said above.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/compass
> 
> I vote for highway=stop + compass=X on the way at the stop line plus
> traffic_sign=stop + compass=X at the actual stop sign location.

Why not use relations for stop sign applications similar to how
enforcement relations work?  It really seems silly to use a tag that
expects people to imprecisely describe direction relative to four
cardinal directions, or use degrees or radians, when you can essentially
draw a picture.


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