[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 11:22 -0700, Tod Fitch wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Most traffic calming features are not pedestrian crossings.
>
> Where traffic_calming is not a pedestrian crossing then
> highway=traffic_calming is the prefered way of tagging.
>

Where are you getting this impression from?  None of the JOSM presets, the
wiki, common usage, or how Osmand interprets this feature seem to back this
up...

There's 99 cases of highway=traffic_calming in taginfo, and 212,950 cases
of traffic_calming=*
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