[Talk-us] Am I mapping this wrong, or should the router be fixed for this?

[Tod Fitch]

> On Jul 27, 2015, at 6:41 PM, David Wisbey <yourvillagemaps at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>  This issue reminds me of something I saw a lot of recently on OSM
> in Fort Collins, Colorado.  I get the impression that the mapper who
> did this editing did it as a way to avoid the problem(s) mentioned
> regarding routing.  When I first saw this "peculiar" way of mapping
> traffic signals, I didn't speak up.  I'm glad this finally got me to do so.
> 
> Instead of placing the traffic_signals key at the intersection nodes of
> a dual carriageway (divided highway) intersection with signals, this
> mapper created "redundant" nodes on the ways (one-ways) prior to
> the intersections (and prior to pedestrian crossings, of course) at
> the point where vehicles (by law) must stop for a red signal.
> 
> Here is just one example of many in Fort Collins:
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.55255/-105.07708 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.55255/-105.07708>
> 
> David

Not really odd at all, and I’ve mapped plenty that way. Why? Because I was following the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways>

And from my software/engineering background it makes sense.
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