[Tagging] improve tagging of traffic_calming

[Gerd Petermann]

Dave Swarthout wrote
> *If we move traffic_calming to the "Other highway features"category we
> will
> probably see more ways segmented into highway=residentialand
> highway=traffic_calming bits, and I think that would be a step back.My
> conclusion so far: the wiki is missleading and most mappers have learnedto
> use traffic_calming=* without highway=traffic_calming, so I suggest to add
> asimilar hint for deprecated tagging to the traffic_calming page*
> 
> I reckon I wouldn't have a problem with doing that. I have always used
> only
> a node for the traffic_calming devices I've encountered but I can see how
> splitting a way to make it a table or chicane might be problematical. But
> then how would one tag a traffic_calming method that is not a node but a
> section of the highway with some non-zero length?

We already have ~16000 ways tagged traffic_calming, I don't think
that they cause problems.
I don't fear the way segmentation, I fear that mappers use 
highway=traffic_calming for the small way segments when we tell them
to use it for nodes. My understanding is that this is not wanted.

Gerd (GerdP)



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