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

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Stephen Hope <slhope at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about railway crossings?  I've seen railway
> crossings with no
> lights, gates or similar, just a stop sign.  Usually
> way out in the
> middle of nowhere, so there may not be a routable junction
> for quite
> some distance, and even if there was, the sign doesn't
> apply to that
> junction anyway. Would a railway/road crossing count as a
> "nearest
> node junction", or would it try and apply it to something
> else?

I agree, we need more tags to describe the railway crossing's feature set, boom_gate=no, lights=no etc, however this is a special case for stop signs because they will exist either side of the junction and never applies to the railway line. Unlike junctions of road traffic which needs to be differentiated from the way.