Hi, I’m looking for advice on how to map and tag crossings on single roads but with many ways associated with the road (e.g. road + bus + trams). I also want to add accessibility information like tactile paving, wheelchair accessibility.
This crossing for example: Node: Bako (2720001791) | OpenStreetMap
The eastern footpath, starting from the side of Bierkade, crosses a bike lane, then a regular road + 2x tram tracks + busway,… except for the bike lane, those are all controlled by a single traffic light.
Should I add the crossing itself only on the main tertiary road, and also only add the accessibility information there? It would be nice if anyone has a similar example.
Should I be adding foothpaths in these cases? The roads all use foot=use_sidepath.
highway=traffic_signals is mapped on the place where the car/bike/pedestrian is supposed to stop, crossing covered bij traffic lights can be mapped with `
Only where parallel cycleways are mapped.
You could add sidewalk=right to these cycleways and the roads without sidewalk tag. You could also add separate highway=footway + footway=sidewalk but that is not done often as it clogs up the card and to do it correctly needs a lot of additional footways and footway-connections to be added.
Thank you emvee for the help and the welcome I still have some questions, I hope you can help.
Only where parallel cycleways are mapped.
I can remove the separate footpath and update the cyclepath with the sidewalk=right tag? It just feels strange to add the tactile_paving=yes tag when it’s only relevant for the sidewalk / pedestrian crossing.
highway=traffic_signals
Did you mean I should mark the whole way as crossing=traffic_signals? I don’t see the suggestion for highway=traffic_signals in ID. Not sure if I will map the footpaths though and instead use your sidewalk=right suggestion.
If I use a footpath way, should I keep it as a single long segment, or cut it into different parts for each separate crossing? I wanted to make separate segments because the tactile pavement is only present at the sidewalks and not the crossing in the middle.
What should I do with the points where it crosses/connects to the other ways? I see ID automatically adds the correct type of crossing for every single point, is it expected to add information like tactile_paving=yes for every crossing?
No, see Tag:highway=crossing and have a look at “Used on these elements”, highway=crossing is only used on nodes and crossing=traffic_signals is just a sub-key of highway=crossing.
Keep ways as long as possible but if two parts of the way have separate tags you have to split them.
I still have some questions, I hope you can help.