[Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki

[John F. Eldredge]

It does seem, however, that it would seem to make more sense to either have separate nodes for each of the possible directions, or have some other way of signifying which direction or directions the stop sign applies to.  Frequently, only some of the traffic directions at an intersection are required to stop.  Most often, the traffic on the side-street is required to stop, but not that on the larger street.  I know of one intersection, here in Nashville, Tennessee, where traffic coming from one direction does not have to stop, but traffic coming from the other three directions does have to stop.

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Subject :Re: [Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki
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Date  :Wed Sep 15 15:45:23 America/Chicago 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:59 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I stumbled upon a tag sneaked into the wiki without (AFAIK)
> any discussion or announcement on this list.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dgive_way

I've used it, and it's a natural extension of highway=stop. Maybe the
highway tag is overloaded; you can't tag a node that's both
traffic_signals and motorway_junction or crossing. But give_way isn't
a problem unless stop is also bad.

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