[OSM-talk] highway=stop

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Pieren Pieren wrote:
| Could someone explain the tag highway=stop provided by the 'Map
| Features' page ?
| I would expect that all tags approved and moved to this "reference" page
| are clearly described.
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| Well, fine, the foot note on the wiki page explains that the main
| description is a non-sens...
| Shall we put the node on the way where the sign is, a little bit before
| the intersection (and how much) ?  or is it planned to use a relation ?
| or does it really help to tag such signs (I mean, it does not influence
| routing) ?

It certainly does influence routing. I'd rather take the road without
stop signs than the road with stop signs at every block that runs
parallel. By the time you have slowed down, stopped, looked and sped up
again, passing a stop sign adds at least 30 seconds to a journey -
probably more, compared to if you could have just stayed at the speed
limit for the whole section.

| or should we remove this tag from the approved Map features and create a
| proposal wiki page where a clear definition could be done ?

We need a way to know where stop signs and give way (yield) signs are
and which direction they face. It probably requires a relation between
the node and the way they are on.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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