[Tagging] Time is now: tag ALL traffic signs in OSM

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Mon May 22 05:46:09 UTC 2017


As for the forward, backward on nodes. Did you read the discussion on
stop signs on the mailing list ? Several people were opposed to it.

This seems to be a slightly different way of tagging direction signs.
There is also [1], which is visualized by [2] and partially supported
by e.g. OsmAnd and MapFactor Navigator (as far as the semi-colon
separated destinations is concerned).

As for the useage of the data: inventory for towns so they know how
many signs of a particular type are found within the town limits.
Newspapers could use it in "there are X number of signs that need to
be replaced for this new law".

When we also draw the sidewalks as areas, nagivation software could
take the position of the poles into account to calculate routes for
wheelchairs or trollers in case the sidewalk is becoming too small at
a pole.

m.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details
[2] http://osm.mueschelsoft.de/cgi-bin/render.pl



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