[Tagging] automated edits seem to remove crossing=zebra drastically

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 20:01, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> while the very generic crossing=marked, which was quite unpopular before
> (2013-2018 below 6000 uses) now went through the roof and is leading the
> tagstats with more than 1 million uses.
>

You may find that it is partly, at least, iD's "fault"? Crossings now
"error" in iD to say that "this street crosses an unmarked crossing",
despite the crossing being mapped & tagged? eg
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/-28.06439/153.43854

The "fix" inserts an "Unmarked Crossing" node on the junction of the street
& crossing.
eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7914347813

What do you think about it, shouldn't we be encouraging people to use more
> specific tags like crossing=zebra or crossing=traffic_signals instead?
>

I must admit that I only do crossings as =traffic_signals; =marked (by
itself) for zebra crossings; & =unmarked where there is provision to cross
the road but no signage or roadway markings on any sort.

Thanks

Graeme
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