[talk-au] Correct way to tag pedestrian crossings with traffic signals

[Marc Gemis]

Hallo Thomas,

I only use the second method. If I see the first one, I add the nodes
for the crossings, tag them as in the second way and remove
crossing=traffic_signals from the original node.

regards

m.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:04 AM Thomas Manson <thomas.manson at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to determine the best way to tag pedestrian crossings.
>
> These are the map features that I am trying to tag: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3500829415 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2039208753
>
> They are currently tagged:
> crossing:traffic_signals
> highway:traffic_signals
>
> However, on the page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals, there appears
> to be 2 ways to tag this, with the alternative being:
> highway:crossing
> crossing:traffic_signals
> for the cases (like this is) where the pedestrian crossing is not separately mapped - in this case it is only a pedestrian crossing, not an intersection.
>
> My reading is that the second way is preferred for this type of crossing. Am I correct?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
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