[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

[Tod Fitch]

A raised area several feet across with a marked crosswalk on top is not uncommon in Silicon Valley and more of them seem to appearing in residential areas. I suspect that it is one of the newer ways to address the combined issue of traffic calming and pedestrian crossing.





On November 20, 2015 9:41:00 AM MST, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com> wrote:
>The traffic_calming nodes I've added are common in Thailand where they
>are
>used to force traffic to go slow. These are most often bumps in the
>road,
>an asphalt or concrete bump, that will knock you off your motorcycle if
>you
>hit it fast enough. But they are definitely not crossings. I've seen a
>few
>traffic_calming "humps" (a longer bump) that have a crossing on them in
>Eugene, Oregon, but they are unusual, not the normal case.
>
>On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Gerd Petermann <
>GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to make sure:
>> I've not changed nodes tagged highway=crossing,
>> but I changed some that were tagged highway=traffic_calming
>> to highay=crossing. I see no problem to add a tag
>> like traffic_calming=island to the same node, but
>> I think that e.g. bumps are typically before the crossing,
>> so those should be tagged on a different node.
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>
>> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. November 2015 17:10
>> An: tagging at openstreetmap.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> What happens when a traffic calming is a crossing for pedestrians at
>the
>> same time? I have some examples in this avenue of my home town where
>I
>> live: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1080908514
>>
>> I find it is more important to mark it as a highway=crossing than a
>> highway=traffic_calming
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rafael.
>>
>> On 20/11/15 16:19, GerdP wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've noticed that a few (940) traffic_calmings are mapped as
>> > highway=traffic_calming , most of them also have the tag
>> > traffic_calming=*, but ~ 10% did not.
>> >
>> > The vast majority (> 212000) of the nodes tagged traffic_calming=*
>is not
>> > also tagged highway=traffic_calming. I looked at the wiki and
>thought
>> that
>> > it
>> > is simply a bit missleading as traffic_calming appears on the
>highway
>> side
>> >
>> > So I started to cleanup, found a few nodes which where
>highway=crossing
>> > instead of traffic_calming, found a few nodes not (yet) connected
>to
>> roads
>> > and finally decided to do a few larger changes today.
>> >
>> > After the last change one of the bigger changes was commented by
>user
>> chilly
>> > as an undiscussed mechanical edit, see
>> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35457641
>> >
>> > As stated in the changeset comment I hope that the change is okay,
>> > and I am sorry that I start this discussion now instead of asking
>first.
>> >
>> > Please let me know what you think about the edit itself and whether
>or
>> not
>> > I should revert all changes related to this tag.
>> >
>> > Gerd
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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