[Tagging] highway=crossing not rendered on Mapnik (& others)

[Richard Mann]

Yeah, not unknown elsewhere, but I'd still say the UK has a much higher
density of mid-block signalled crossings (and contrariwise, rather fewer
signalled junctions).

Anyway, I wouldn't say that
highway=traffic_signals+crossing=traffic_signals is wrong for a crossing,
just typical of a tagging approach that focuses on the impact on the
driver, rather than the opportunities for pedestrians. Since there's no
information loss, that's probably fair enough.

Crossings are rendered in the cyclemap, though they use the same symbol for
all types of crossings:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.74895/-1.23984&layers=C

Richard

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org>
wrote:

> Richard Mann wrote on 2015/11/22 23:24:
>
>> You may or may not know, but mid-block signalled crossings are a bit of a
>> UK-specific phenomenon. In many other countries (in Europe, anyway),
>> signalled crossings are part of junctions.
>>
>>
> I would not say so, I know a lot in Germany. Often they are on-demand.
> There are also plenty cases when there is a signalled crossing on a
> tertiary road near a junction with a residential, and the traffic light
> only regulates the pedestrian flow across the tertiary, while the
> motor traffic coming from the residential into the tertiary is
> unregulated.
>
> tom
>
>
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