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

[James Livingston]

On 25/08/2009, at 7:39 PM, Pieren wrote:
> That's exactly what I say. Stick the node where the real life stop
> sign is - nothing arbitrary here

If you're arguing that the tagged node should be where the stop sign  
is and not on the intersection, surely it would be beside the way not  
one of the nodes forming it? Most of the stop signs I've seen aren't  
stuck in the middle of the road.

> then let software calculate the
> distances and find the nearest intersection. If and only if the
> nearest intersection is not easy to find (e.g. because the distance
> from the two intersections is the same or nearly the same), then add
> the relation.

Or we could just always use a relation, so that mapping and software  
don't have to check for two different things, when editing and  
processing data respectively.