[talk-au] tagging giveway signs

[Simon Biber]

John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 June 2010 09:55, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No idea, but FWIW wouldn't highway=give_way be more consistent with
> > other OSM tags? i.e. separating words with an underscore...
> >
> 
> There was only 13 of those, so it doesn't seem like many people map
> them, unless people in other countries call them something else...

Yes, in some countries they are called yield signs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_sign

According to 

http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*%5Bhighway=yield%5D
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*%5Bhighway=giveway%5D
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*%5Bhighway=give_way%5D

the OSM database contains

98 instances of highway=yield  (9 distinct users)
25 instances of highway=giveway (2 distinct users)
13 instances of highway=give_way (3 distinct users)

My personal preference would have been to use give_way,  since it follows the tradition of using British English as the source of tag names, but the majority of mappers so far have chosen yield.

Regards,
Simon.