[Tagging] Stop sign?

[John F. Eldredge]

Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> I (would) do this mostly for consistency. I have to admit I never HAD
> to do
> it, most stop signs in Belgium are used for their intended purpose:
> give
> priority to the main road, not inhibit all traffic arriving at an
> intersection.
> 
> A node on the way approaching a main road is unambiguous enough. One
> one
> the intersection itself is harder to 'interpret'.
> 
> Concerning traffic lights it would depend on the size of the
> intersection.
> Traffic lights tend to have an influence on all ways arriving at the
> intersection, whereas stop signs make traffic on some ways 'inferior'
> to
> the ways of the main road. So it's not the same situation.
> 
> It also depends on the quality of the Bing imagery. It has now become
> possible to indicate where highway=give_way applies for many places in
> Europe.
> 
> Polyglot
> 
> 
> 2012/11/21 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What I never do anymore is to tag the node of the crossing with
> it. So
> > even
> > > if all 4 roads have a stop sign, I'd create for nodes for them on
> all
> > > approaches.
> >
> > Are you doing the same for traffic_signals ? if not, why simply not
> > accept that such signals on the cross node implies that all
> > intersecting ways are concerned ?
> >
> > Pieren
> >
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In the USA, all-way stop signs are used at intersections where all of the roads in question have equal priority, and the expected traffic volume is small enough that you won't have a large backlog of traffic waiting to go through.  From what you are saying, would Belgium always give one of the roads the right-of-way, so that its traffic does not have to stop, or would it always have an electric traffic signal at such an intersection, regardless of how small the expected traffic volume is?

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