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

[Pieren]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Roy Wallace<waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) a relation with the node and the way as members, as in,
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:type%3Dstop)
> 2) the way tagged with indirect reference to the node (i.e. start or
> end node of way) - as in, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:stop
> 3) an extra node tagged, placed on the way, "near" the intersection
> (Pieren's email)
>
> I prefer 1) for a number of reasons. IMHO, 2) and 3) are more or less
> attempts to mimic 1) in order to avoid using a relation.

A small pic is better than a long speach. One example with one major
street and six minor streets all having stops when intersecting with
the major street:
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1) add 6 relations + minor streets split
2) add 6 different tags "stop=yes/both/-1" + minor streets split
3) add 6 nodes on the minor streets themselves and closed to the
intersections and all tagged with "highway=stop"

All solutions are valid but 3) makes contributor's life easier.
Pieren