On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM ipswichmapper--- via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossing%3Dpriority > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/crossing%3Dpriority#Tagging> > > Here is my first proposal for a tag to describe pedestrian crossings where > the pedestrian has right of way over all vehicles on the road from the > moment they have indicated their intent to cross. I created this because > "crossing=zebra" or "crossing=marked" aren't clear enough. Please read the > proposal for more details. > In a number of places that I've lived or visited, marked crossings (zebra or others) indicate the pedestrian has the right-of-way. For example, where I live now, Washington State, it's the law that pedestrians have righ-of-way in a marked crosswalk. In all those many places adding the tag crossing=priority would be redundant. It would also effectively do away with crossing=marked which has over 1M uses[1]. Many of us were very happy when crossing=marked was added because zebra didn't exactly fit. What crossing=marked does is give the ability to easily verify what's literally on the ground, even visible from good aerial imagery. If you believe that we need a priority tag, then I suggest creating one that doesn't effectively depreciate crossing=marked. I'd also suggest explaining how a mappers is expected to know if the pedestrian has priority. [1] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/crossing#values -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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