> It should be pretty trivial to have the area share nodes with the highway ways where the signals would normally be mapped. > Like drawing a square around a tic-tac-toe board, but the shared nodes are only on one side at a time.
Here, I strongly disagree. The defination on the proposal page is clear: We do not want to have tags on the shared nodes. Only this way it is clear what is within the area, and what is without. We should not give up this possiblility. And your idea actually would give up this possiblilty. Next problem with your idea: You need to have shared nodes not only for incoming, but also for the outgoing oneways. And mostly there is no real traffic signal _after_ you have passed a crossroad. Nevertheless you have there a node. So later you won’t be able to know if on a specific node there is really a traffic signal or not. We don’t have any need to represent the individual traffic signals in the border. It would make the usage far to complicate. And you would not gain anything. If you want to mark individual traffic signals, use the existing tagging. But don’t invent a new one – don’t make it unnecessarily complicate! > Also, I think It could also share nodes with the walkways and other pedestrian oriented ways, as the signal would be part of their routing as well. Here, I agree. I assumed that people would do so automatically, but I’ll also add it on the wiki page. Lukas Sommer 2014-09-21 21:30 GMT+00:00 John Willis <jo...@mac.com>: > It should be pretty trivial to have the area share nodes with the highway > ways where the signals would normally be mapped. Like drawing a square > around a tic-tac-toe board, but the shared nodes are only on one side at a > time. > > Also, I think It could also share nodes with the walkways and other > pedestrian oriented ways, as the signal would be part of their routing as > well. > > Javbw > > > > On Sep 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Lukas Sommer <sommer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So the nodes where the signals_area intersects the highways is where > the signals would normally be mapped for complex intersections? > > > > Not exactly. It would be difficult to do so if you have really complex > junctions with really many individual traffic signals and you want to catch > all of them – a zickzack that is not easy to draw and not practical to > maintain. The area is drawn just _around_ everything that is considered the > junction. > > > > About the individual traffic signals. We recommand as current > best-practice to not map them if you use the area. Means: Don’t do both > things. (But maybe in the future this could be considered useful and it > could be done without breaking the tagging scheme just like every other > normal traffic signal with highway=traffic_signals on a node.) > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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