Proposal:Document pedestrian crossing hierarchy

Document pedestrian crossing hierarchy
Proposal status:	Draft (under way)
Proposed by:	bkil
Tagging:	crossing=* Data item
Applies to:
Definition:	where pedestrians and bicycle users may cross roads
Statistics:
Rendered as:	various
Draft started:	2018-10-27
RFC start:	2018-10-27
Vote start:	*
Vote end:	*

We should clarify the meaning of existing tags in the wiki and perhaps suggest a slight tweak to make it sustainable. A major reworking of the whole system is out of scope of this proposal.

Proposal

crossing=*

Based on values from taginfo:

• crossing=no
• crossing=yes (most generic)
• crossing=controlled is with traffic signals or with police people or similar
• crossing=traffic_signals is with traffic lights. So implies crossing=controlled
• crossing=uncontrolled can be crossing=marked or crossing=unmarked. So either one of them implies crossing=uncontrolled

If there is a traffic island in the crossing you can tag the island crossing=island

crossing_ref=*

We should prefer to move all the crossing=animal stuff to crossing_ref=* and then reserve crossing=* for the technical categorization.

• zebra is marked but uncontrolled (if it is controlled you can use other value)
• pelican,panda,tigger,toucan,pegasus are controlled with traffic lights
• pelican and panda is only with traffic lights .Pelican is the evolution of panda
• tigger means bicycle=designated and toucan means bicycle=yes.
• pegasus means horse=designated

All the animal stuff is British. They called the crossing like with some characteristic thing of some animals.

• [2] Zebra: with black and white poles called Belisha Beacons. In the UK they are uncontrolled but marked.
• [3] Pelican:(previously pelicon crossing, which stood for "pedestrian light controlled crossing"). Crossing with traffic lights and a button to cross. Controlled traffic sign crossing.
• [4] Panda:As pelican but with a "light traffic light" with two lights for drivers and only the word cross for the pedestrian people
• [5] Tigger: iniatially was yellow and black. Now are the crossing for bicycles. Attached to the zebras
• [6] Toucan: "Since two-can, both pedestrians and cyclists, cross together, the name "toucan" was chosen." Big sense of humour. If you take a Tigger and a pelican then you will have a Toucan crossing. Controlled with traffic lights and a button. If the button and the pedestrian/cyclist traffic light is at the same place when you start to crossing and not in the opposite it is called puffin crossing [7]
• [8] Pegasus: for horses

• [1] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/crossing#values
• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing
• [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_crossing#Details
• [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_crossing
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing#Tiger_crossing
• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toucan_crossing
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing
• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_crossing

Discussion

• Talk:Proposed_features/Document_pedestrian_crossing_hierarchy
• https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-October/040232.html

Source

• Copy & pasted the excellent description of "yo paseopor" from the mailing list, thank you for this writeup!

Voting

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