On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 19:29, Peter Elderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Nederland, the zebra is a very clear and specific type of crossing with > legal rules including yield to pedestrians walking on or even toward the > zebra. > I think we may end up having to make a distinction between the pattern of the markings and what those markings signify. In the UK the pedestrian has priority when they step on the crossing. In most of Europe pedestrians have priority when they one the curb about to step onto the crossing. There may be other countries where a crossing has zebra markings but pedestrians do not have priority. In the US zebra markings are the most common way of marking crosswalks but other markings are also used. If I read things right, all US states give pedestrians priority when they enter a crosswalk, however marked. The US also has several variants of the zebra. Some states give pedestrians priority if they enter unmarked crosswalks. Maybe "zebra crossing" should be a region-specific editor preset and generates a tag(s) indicating priority of the pedestrian and under what circumstances: "crossing, indicated by surface markings, pedestrian has priority after stepping onto the crossing" with "surface markings are straight zebra." Something like that. -- Paul
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