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

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:31 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>This whole argument seems to be about tagging for routing software which is as bad as tagging for render.
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>What's so bad about sticking a stop node 3-5m before the intersection, after all how many junctions have a stop sign after you pass through them?

This is not about tagging for routing software.

To denote a requirement to stop, you need to mark the direction of
approach, and the intersection. This is not a matter of opinion.

You may argue that a "node 3-5m before the intersection" is the best
approach and should be used to mark both of these things
simultaneously, but I respectfully disagree.

Pieren said "I'm not against relations when it is adding information."

I have a different stance - I am against using anything that isn't a
relation when a relation is necessary. And a relation is necessary
when a tag involves an inseparable interaction of ways/nodes, as in
this case.