> Same around here.  Most of them have tactile paving too.

Please join our discussion of crossing=marked!

Without wanting to invite discussion in this thread, this is not what
"uncontrolled" means in OpenStreetMap, and it's one of the reasons we
should change it.

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 4:52 AM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 10:42, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Uncontrolled crossings are by far the most common. They are wherever
>> there are drop kerbs, which in my town just about every road junction.
>>
>
> Same around here.  Most of them have tactile paving too.  Which I suppose
> could be considered as
> marking, because it's a different colour to the ordinary paving (but
> sometimes the difference is
> subtle).  For the pedestrian it's obviously marked (even if there's no
> colour change you can see
> the drop kerb and feel the bumps) but around here most motorists seem
> blissfully unaware that
> it's there.
>
> A problem I found way, way back when I looked at how somebody had mapped
> the few pelican
> crossings around here is that, if you did it according to the wiki, it
> didn't render (no traffic lights
> shown). Yes, from the perspective of the pedestrian it's a crossing but
> from the perspective of
> the motorist it's a set of traffic lights.    That may havechanged, but I
> found a combination of tags
> that sort of made sense (and could be interpreted as complying with the
> wiki, maybe) and
> actually rendered as traffic lights.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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