[OSM-talk] Revisiting traffic control and traffic calming

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, precisely.  It's at least a good starting point.


> 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 ?
>

I don't think so.  I consider Osmand to be the reference implementation for
mobile navigation based off OSM data and it definitely understands
enforcement relations.
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