[OSM-talk] Revisiting traffic control and traffic calming

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Thu May 11 15:28:59 UTC 2017


On Sun, 7 May 2017 01:57:54 -0500
Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> I think it's time that we seriously reconsider how stop signs, yield
> signs and traffic calming devices are handled in all but the most
> simple (all approaches to the affected node apply) cases. [..] I'm
> thinking it's time to start mapping this similar to how we handle
> enforcement and turn restrictions, ie, with relations, for all but
> the simplest of cases, especially since the whole forward/backward
> direction=* thing is nonapplicable to nodes by design.

Do you have in mind something like
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:enforcement ?

From the points of view of edition and data modeling, I believe that it
is the way forward.

From the point of view of data consumers, it requires grokking
relations - which is currently not common. Would that be a reason not
to choose that method ?



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