If micro mapping, then the stop sign is usually not in the center of the traveled way (though I have occasionally seen some there). For micro mapping, place a node for the sign where it exists on the side of the road and then use the compass direction to indicate how it is facing. As it is detached from the highway way forward and backward can have no meaning.
The “highway=stop | give_way” tag on a node on way might be used by map rendering, which probably doesn’t care if it has forward or backward tagging. I’ve been using Mapnik XML for rendering my maps and I don’t recall the ability to detect the direction of a way. Or even if something that is being rendered by the point symbolizer can tell if the point is on a way. I could be wrong on that. And even if wrong, maybe some rendering tool chain will support that in the future. But at present I am pretty sure that map rendering can’t use “direction=forward | backward”. It can (and my rendering does) use the compass points and/or degrees values for rotating icons in the point symbolizer. I strongly suspect that tagging the stop/give way sign in the middle of the way is for the use of routing and route guidance. It might still be of use by guidance (though I am not sure the “direction=forward | backward” matters much in that case) but what I am hearing is that as implemented/specified now it is not useful for routing. Thus my comment about noise. I have been following the tagging suggested on the wiki [1] and checking the direction of the way in order to determine the value to put on the direction tag is tedious. If it is not being used, I might well forgo the direction tag. Fortunately the same wiki page states direction is only needed if the signs are closely spaced and it is not obvious which intersection/direction the sign is for, so the direction tag in that case is almost always optional per my interpretation of the wiki. Cheers! [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstop#Tagging_minor_road_stops > On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:47 PM, yo paseopor <yopaseo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't agree with this: marking the direction of the traffic sign is not > noise, for a driver can be VITAL, also with the meaning of the traffic sign > (the main purpose of a traffic sign). > Why? Because in a way with two directions we need to know to what direction > traffic sign it is for. It is not the same a road cross with an STOP forward > than backward (with micromapping it is not the same one lamp than two) > Put a key like direction is not the best option, because this information can > be inside the key itself like traffic_sign:forward or traffic_sign:backward. > Also it is a good thing to say of what side of the way the traffic sign is. > In some countries traffic sign of a side is not the same as the other side > specially in streets in a city. > e.g. > > traffic_sign:forward=ES:R2 > highway=stop > side=right > > Ok, OSMR do not use that...but other tools uses this information so it is > important to keep it at the data. > In a short-term, people like Mapillary or OSC will give us the opportunity > (and the data) to map all the traffic signs in a way. Routers and navigation > apps should be prepared for that. OSM is nowadays capable of show all this > information. Don't make it disappear. > > Salut i mapes (Health and maps) > yopaseopor
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