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

[John Smith]

2009/8/28 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:

> So what are you proposing? How should we tag stop signs? To me, it
> seems you are suggesting that stop signs should *only* be tagged on
> ways that are oneway=yes. What are you proposing?

Nothing of the sort. We really don't seem to be on the same wave
length at times. :)

The real issue is the OSM DB and editors all treat all ways as always
being symmetrical, real life however doesn't share the same
simplicitic view of things.

What we have now is when we tag a stop sign it has the implication of
effecting both lanes and various suggestions put forth so far try to
distingush this, but do so without addressing the real problem. We're
taking pain killers to mask the pain rather than taking antibiotics to
fix the underlying cause of the pain.

Stop signs are a good example of this, as is needing to tag lanes with
differing speed limits on motorways, as is tagging different
clearences if bridges over ways slope, or lanes having different
turning restrictions, and so on.

What we need is a real solution to address all these problems which
comes down to a fundemental problem of describing lanes, not ways.