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

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good point. Also, how about a straight section of road that
> becomes
> narrow (single lane) in one section, and therefore has a
> stop (or give
> way) sign on one side of the narrow section. There's no
> junction at
> all in this case.

Actually there is still a junction from when it goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane, and the (usually in .au) give way sign is before the junction of the 2 lanes into one.
 
> This is the risk with using a "fudge" solution (i.e.
> implicitly
> referring to another node using "proximity", rather than
> using a
> relation) - there could be other *unforeseen* cases that
> will break
> the fudge in future...

Neither of these cases need fudging, in the case of railway=level_crossing it's already in wide spread usage, as for 2 lanes to one this can still be done via proximity searches.