[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 60, Issue 157

[Roy Wallace]

2009/8/25 Martin Norbäck <martin at norpan.org>:
>
> Using a relation has some advantages:
> * it connects the stop requirement to the junction node (you can look
> at the junction node to see that there is a stop requirement)
> * if the way leading to the junction is split/reversed, the relation
> still works (although it will have two way members, so it's slightly
> broken)
>
> With the current editors, it's not hard to add relations, and a stop
> relation is almost self evident how it works when viewing it, but the
> tags proposed for the way needs to be looked up to be understandable.

Yep. On the other hand, tagging a way has an advantage: it avoids the
need to add a relation.

What is everyone's preference? I quite like the relation described at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:type%3Dstop

In fact, that relation avoids the need to split the way at the
junction if the stop sign applies in both directions along the way
through the junction.