Hi Here is my opinion about that If your query crossing in taginfo you may find 10 main values [1]:
uncontrolled > 668.448 but with marks (generic). I think they might be zebra crossings. zebra > 541.412 traffic_signals > 520.238 with traffic lights unmarked > 146.241 without marks of any kind but it is not forbidden to pass island > 52.437 big crosswalk with a traffic island at the middle no >9.942 forbidden to cross (generic) marked > 8.930 yes > 4.006 (most generic) toucan > 2.058 pelican > 1964 puffin > 116 Let's reorder no yes controlled...with traffic signals? uncontrolled but marked unmarked island animal stuff (ref) zebra pelican toucan puffin tigger panda pegasus ... All the animal stuff is British. They called the crossing like with some characteristic thing of some animals. [2] Zebra: with black and white poles called Belisha Beacons. In the UK they are uncontrolled but marked. [3] Pelican:(previously pelicon crossing, which stood for "pedestrian light controlled crossing"). Crossing with traffic lights and a button to cross. Controlled traffic sign crossing. [4] Panda:As pelican but with a "light traffic light" with two lights for drivers and only the word cross for the pedestrian people [5] Tigger: iniatially was yellow and black. Now are the crossing for bicycles. Attached to the zebras [6] Toucan: "Since two-can, both pedestrians and cyclists, cross together, the name "toucan" was chosen." Big sense of humour. If you take a Tigger and a pelican then you will have a Toucan crossing. Controlled with traffic lights and a button. If the button and the pedestrian/cyclist traffic light is at the same place when you start to crossing and not in the opposite it is called puffin crossing [7] [8] Pegasus: for horses So... what about OSM might be in all the countries I think OSM can describe the crossing with one key, and then can explain how it is called the crossing with other key so crossing=no crossing=yes (most generic) crossing=controlled is with traffic signals or with police people or similar crossing=traffic_light is with traffic lights. So implies crossing=controlled crossing=uncontrolled can be crossing=marked or crossing=unmarked . So one of them implies crossing=uncontrolled If there is a traffic island in the crossing you can tag crossing=island and then there are the crossing_ref zebra is marked but uncontrolled (if it is controlled you can use other value) pelican,panda,tigger,toucan,pegasus are controlled with traffic lights pelican and panda is only with traffic lights .Pelican is the evolution of panda tigger means bicycle=designated and toucan means bicycle=yes. pegasus means horse=designated crossing_ref is a good key for describe better the crossing I would change all the crossing=animal stuff to crossing_ref and then crossing=technical description. Salut i passos de vianants (Health and crossings) yopaseopor [1] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/crossing#values [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_crossing#Details [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_crossing [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing#Tiger_crossing [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toucan_crossing [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_crossing
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