[Tagging] "Unambiguous crossings" proposals and related questions

[Nick Bolten]

> I’ve read that whole previous discussion, and from my point of view it
was just a whole bunch of completely useless noise, with everyone telling
you that you aren’t making sense and you ignoring it and bulldozing your
way forward.

Ah, and incidentally, I'd say I have the exact opposite problem: I reply to
just about every single thread, quoting just about everything and
attempting to take it into consideration.

Let's try to make this a productive discussion, not one laden with (for
some reason primarily German-speaking-originating) disdain.

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:20 PM Nick Bolten <nbolten at gmail.com> wrote:

> > if you are having trouble where people are “fixing” your mapping, then
> draw a way with no highway=* tag put crossing=no on it.
>
> Is this an established strategy? I'd be happy to promote it + update the
> wiki if it's communally supported. If it's not necessarily an established
> strategy, I'd also be interested in making a new thread about it in the
> hopes of making it one.
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:09 PM John Willis via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
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>> On May 20, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Nick Bolten <nbolten at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, people will draw the crossing if there isn't negative
>> information there saying to stop doing that, e.g. crossing=no
>>
>>
>> if you are having trouble where people are “fixing” your mapping, then
>> draw a way with no highway=* tag
>>
>> put crossing=no on it. that should at least read as “mapped” to imagery
>> tracers out there.
>>
>> similar to demolished=* on a line mapped over a bridge visible on imagery
>> that has actually been destroyed.
>>
>> Javbw
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