Dave Swarthout wrote > Sorry all. I'm on Thailand time and had to sleep. > > The highway=traffic_calming key is found on the top level highway page > here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway. On that page a link > to the types of traffic_calming device appears: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_calming. > > I assume they are to be used together. As I said earlier, one could make > an > argument for skipping the highway=traffic_calming key but as it stands > now, > I think the two go together. YMMV
I think that is exactly the logic that I meant when I wrote that the wiki is missleading. a) The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway lists traffic_calming in a category called "Attributes", together with tags like ford, incline, surface etc.. b) There is another group titled "Other highway features" which contains eg. highway=crossing, highway=elevator, highway=stop etc. If I follow your logic I would have to use highway=ford, ford=yes for a node that marks a ford, but http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford tells me that highway=ford is deprecated, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford#Deprecated_Tags We still have ~ 5700 nodes tagged highway=ford and ~100 ways with highway=ford, the number are decreasing slowly during the last 28 days. If we move traffic_calming to the "Other highway features" category we will probably see more ways segmented into highway=residential and highway=traffic_calming bits, and I think that would be a step back. My conclusion so far: the wiki is missleading and most mappers have learned to use traffic_calming=* without highway=traffic_calming, so I suggest to add a similar hint for deprecated tagging to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_calming as it is used for fords. Gerd (GerdP) -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/improve-tagging-of-traffic-calming-tp5860596p5860673.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
