[OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

[Craig Wallace]

On 23/08/2009 15:45, David Paleino wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:27:42 +0200, Tobias Knerr wrote:
>    
>> David Paleino wrote:
>>      
>>> I'd like to start discussion on the deprecation of the Tag:highway=stop in
>>> favour of using stop=yes/both/-1.
>> How about adding forward/backward information to each stop sign node
>> instead? Would depend on way direction, of course, but as the stop nodes
>> would be placed on single ways rather than intersections, it would be
>> possible. Is there a reason why you didn't choose this approach?
>>      
> Read my reply to Pieren: how close you put the stop sign to the effective
> junction is pretty arbitrary, that's why I'm trying to abandon my "established"
> way of mapping those.
Why not place the stop sign node where the stop line / stop sign is 
physically located?
Nothing arbitrary about that. You can measure the distance from the stop 
line to the centre of the junction of you want.