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

[Norbert Hoffmann]

John Smith wrote:

>2009/8/28 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
>> How about this...just tag a node (must be on a way) where the stop
>> sign/line is in reality, with the following:
>> stop:forward=yes, or
>> stop:backward=yes, or
>> stop=yes (for a node on a oneway=yes way, else implies the stop sign
>> applies in both directions)
+1

>You are still trying to tag for routing software, or trying to compare
>a stop sign with a oneway segment, this really should be dealt with as
>a bigger issue of lanes rather than the hacks people seem to be coming
>up with.

No, Roy wants to tag the semantics of the stop-sign. If this really
simplifies the task of the data consumers, it's all the better.

Norbert