[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - crossing=priority

[stevea]

This is problematic to my thinking.  In California (my state), at an UNCONTROLLED intersection (no traffic_signal, stop sign, other traffic control device...), for example where the sidewalk "would continue to another sidewalk on the other side of the roadway," pedestrians ALWAYS have the right-of-way (over all vehicles) when they indicate it.  How do they indicate it?  By lifting one foot to step towards / into the intersection (from the sidewalk).  Drivers must (by law) stop short of entering the intersection to allow the pedestrian to cross, once a pedestrian has so entered the crossing (even it if is unmarked or "invisible").

So, whatever proposal you come up with might properly need to be applied to every uncontrolled intersection (in California, and potentially many other places).  I ask you to keep this in mind as you craft the proposal.  As it is now, your proposal contradicts a fact now widespread here (and I expect more widely in the USA):  should it be approved, crossing=uncontrolled will describe crossings where VEHICLES have right-of-way.  That would break a lot of intersections so tagged today, making true exactly the opposite semantic on them, contradicting their existing meaning in our map.

Maybe I (we) should be discussing this in the proposal's Talk page rather than in this mail-list, I don't know.

SteveA

> On Dec 13, 2020, at 11:25 AM, ipswichmapper--- via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossing%3Dpriority
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> Here is my first proposal for a tag to describe pedestrian crossings where the pedestrian has right of way over all vehicles on the road from the moment they have indicated their intent to cross. I created this because "crossing=zebra" or "crossing=marked" aren't clear enough. Please read the proposal for more details.
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> Thanks,
> IpswichMapper
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