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

Yves ycai at mailbox.org
Sun Dec 20 06:42:57 UTC 2020


I don't think they can be categorized with the ones designed to make noise.
It looks like they are intended to work as bumps, but cheaper and easier to install.
Yves 

Le 19 décembre 2020 23:47:29 GMT+01:00, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> a écrit :
>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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