[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:traffic_calming=hillocky

[Warin]

On 20/12/20 9:24 am, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> I've seen these in the US also, but I never knew what they were 
> called.  I understand that the purpose of them is simply to make noise 
> when a car drives over them, as they don't slow you down in any 
> appreciable way like a speed bump/hump.
>
> We already have a tag for "a traffic calming device that makes noise 
> when a car drives over it", which is a rumble strip 
> (see: traffic_calming=rumble_strip).  Note, I am talking about the 
> kind that go all the way across the road, and not the kind in the 
> shoulder of the road that make noise when you veer out of your lane.
>
> I usually think of rumble strips as grooves in the road, but it 
> strikes me that these micro-speed-bump things are essentially the same 
> thing -- they make noise when a car goes over it to alert the driver 
> of something.
>
> I'm uncomfortable with hillock/hillocky as a value. Cursory searches 
> seem to indicate that this isn't a term in use, in any flavor of English.


Rumble strips I am familiar with. They not only cause a noise but a 
vibration too, felt by the people inside the vehicle but not a large 
vehicle deflection.

Are the simply a new kind of rumble strip? So 
traffic_calming=rumble_strip, rumble_strip:structure=circle, 
rumble_strip:orientation=transverse

Alternatively perhaps a better name would be rumble circles?


>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 5:08 PM Martin Koppenhoefer 
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     sent from a phone
>
>     > On 19. Dec 2020, at 22:53, Jeremy Harris <jgh at wizmail.org
>     <mailto:jgh at wizmail.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > traffic_calming=multi_bump  ?
>
>
>     or
>     traffic_calming=mini_bumps ?
>
>     when they come up with something smaller that could still be
>     micro_bumps ;-)
>
>
>     Cheers Martin
>
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