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

[Roy Wallace]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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.

It wasn't my suggestion. I don't like the idea of "putting a node just
before the intersection", because that is arbitrary. If we're tagging
an attribute of the way, tag the way - if we're tagging an attribute
of the intersection, tag the intersection.

I don't know why you make the comment that "making relations and
splitting ways" is convoluted. One of the main reasons for David's
proposal here is to avoid the need for a relation. And "splitting
ways" is already quite a common way to deal with these issues in OSM,
is it not (e.g. turn restrictions)?

As for whether people will "be bothered" to tag a way, well, I'm not
sure. But I don't think mappers are generally lazy. Prone to
misunderstanding and confusion, sure, but not lazy.