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

[James Livingston]

On 24/08/2009, at 8:53 AM, Roy Wallace wrote:
> I don't like this, because "before" is arbitrary. If the stop
> requirement applies to the intersection, I think it should be applied
> to the intersection itself (either directly or as a member of a
> relation).

I agree that these kind of things should be related to the  
intersection or way, rather than an arbitrary node before the  
intersection.

What happens when someone wants to reverse the direction of the way?  
Currently you need to check the tags on the way, in case one of them  
is direction-dependent - I don't want to have to start checking all  
the 'nearby' nodes in case one of them has a tag which is dependent on  
the direction of the way.


Personally, I think that using a relation (and splitting the way if  
necessary) would be nicer than having to check a bunch of nodes in  
case one of them has an way-direction-sensitive tag on it.