A toucan crossing is a road crossing where pedestrians and bikes can cross together (typically used to cross a road between two segregated cycle paths). The OSM Wiki for "crossing" states that I can either use:
Or the "UK shortcut":
However the Despite this the "More Info" link from OpenCycleMap suggests that it only recognises the So which should I use? Is one method "better" than the other? Is there any reason that the Mapnik rendering can't recognise the UK shortcut or that OpenCycleMap can't recognise the long version? asked 01 Jul '11, 09:19 GrahamS |
The basics:As a minimum, use
Then it depends on whether you expect international application programmers to know what a "toucan crossing" is. If you don't want to rely on their knowledge of UK crossing terminology, you can add the additional tags that you quoted from the wiki. Controversy: crossing=toucan vs. crossing_ref=toucan:As you have noted, there is a popular alternative for crossing_ref=toucan, crossing=toucan. It's not obvious which you should choose, but I'll try to summarize the arguments again: Pro crossing=toucan
Pro crossing_ref=toucan
I would personally encourage the switch to crossing_ref, if for no other reason than allowing the supporters of "UK names" and "explicit subtagging" to peacefully coexist. Using crossing=toucan forces mappers into an avoidable conflict over the value for crossing tags. answered 01 Jul '11, 20:04 Tordanik |
The JOSM preset for Toucan crossing currently adds the tags
This seems to be a mistake, and as per the wiki and OCM recommendations I would suggest
I wouldn't worry about what does or does not render on the Mapnik rendering too much, as there are too many things mapped for everything to show. If you are concerned though you could suggest an enhancement at trac.openstreetmap.org answered 01 Jul '11, 10:09 EdLoach ♦ Yeah I wouldn't normally worry too much about the Mapnik rendering - but
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GrahamS
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I've done a quick search and there is already http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3483 suggesting highway=crossing be rendered.
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EdLoach ♦
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OpenCycleMap interprets three different ways of tagging toucan crossings - as well as the crossing=toucan method, it handles crossing_ref and also access-based crossing tagging. See https://gitorious.org/opencyclemap-tagtransform/opencyclemap-tagtransform/blobs/master/transform-crossings.xml for the gory details
Thanks @Andy that's good to know. The OCM page I linked only mentions
crossing="toucan"
- perhaps it should be updated?what, to expose to normal people some of the worst of the OSM tagging nonsense? Explain that there's at least three different ways to tag one? I'm not going to inflict this on anyone :-)