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

[John Smith]

--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The ways must be split so that they end (or begin) at the
> intersection. (This is required for most of the relation
> proposals
> anyway, IIRC.)
> 
> Then, each way to which a stop sign applies should be
> tagged with
> stop=at_last_node (or stop=at_first_node). Seems simple
> enough.
> 
> It's a pity that "_last_" and/or "_first" must be
> specified, but that
> is the only way you get away with not making a relation -
> it encodes
> way and node information in a single tag.

I liked your suggestion of putting a node just before the intersection and tagging it, making relations and splitting ways sounds like something very convulted just for a stop sign so most people probably won't be bothered.