[Tagging] RFC: more barrier types

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Sep 21 12:25:19 BST 2010


  On 9/21/10 7:08 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2010/9/21 Richard Welty<rwelty at averillpark.net>:
>>   On 9/21/10 2:19 AM, Stephen Hope wrote:
>>>> maybe you can spot a more technic term? I'm sure they have a proper name
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier#Plastic_Jersey_barriers
>> Wikipedia is a little disjointed on this.
>>
>> Attenuator is generically used for both rail type and barrel type
>> barriers, water filled or sand filled. Attenuator has its own wikipedia
>> page which the Jersey Barrier page doesn't link to.
>>
>> concrete Jersey Barrier is frequently referred to K-rail, and that usage is
>> broader than Wikipedia recognizes; the term K-rail is more likely to be
>> recognized by engineers than by the public, though.
>
> OK, sorry, in the main time I added jersey barrier, feel free to
> change this if you're sure that your terms are more precise / known. I
> also added the spikes to the proposal (without picture, everybody feel
> free to add it). I discovered that spikes already relinks to barrier
> (but is not very visible on the barrier page).
i'd say jersey_barrier is fine for the concrete, it's a more commonly known
term than k-rail and nobody will be confused by it.

but i'd use impact attenuator for the plastic sand/water filled barriers.

also, there needs to be some indication when barrier types are mapped
what they're doing. jersey barrier usually lines one or both sides of a way,
but sometimes it's placed as a block across a way.

i'll add impact attenuator and adjust jersey barrier in a little bit on the
wiki, but i'm not sure what i would propose for indicating how a barrier
is installed (block vs lining a way.)

richard




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