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

[Pieren]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Roy Wallace<waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see what you mean, but the stop sign does NOT apply to just an
> intersection - it applies to a way(s) AND an intersection. This is
> because the applicability of the stop sign at an intersection might
> depend on your direction of approach.
>

Yes, and you add the node on the way itself, so you know on which road
it belongs to.

To be more precise, an instersection like this:
+-------------------------------------------------o--+
where
+ is an intersection
o the node tagged with highway=stop
doesn't require a relation or additional tags because software should
be enough clever to understand that the stop belongs to the right
intersection, not the left.
In such case:
+---------o------+
where the intersection on which the stop sign belongs is not obvious,
you add a relation linking the stop node and the intersection node.
For someone interrested by the subject (I mean, someone who really
needs stop signs information), he could setup an application reporting
all stop signs present in the db that couldn't be linked to its
intersection either because the node is not closed to an intersection
or relation is missing.
Pieren