[RFC] Feature Proposal - Continuous crossings

[ezekielf (Zeke Farwell)]

@Tjuro

I would like it if you would think about how to make it clear what highway=* crosses another highway=* only then you can specify which part is continuous.

I made some suggestions to about this here:

@ezekielf

I’d suggest a new key using the crossing: namespace. Perhaps focusing on tagging which of the two intersecting ways is continuous. Something like crossing:continuity={highway class} or crossing:continuous_way={highway class}. So at a crossing between a highway=footway and a highway=tertiary you could tag crossing:continuous_way=footway to indicate that the footway is continuous across the tertiary road. For a cycleway & residential street crossing where the cycleway is continuous: crossing:continuous_way=cycleway. A schema like this would be flexible enough to handle a continuous cycleway crossing a footway without ambiguity about which one is the sidepath/sidewalk. It could also specify that a highway=pedestrian is continuous across a highway=tertiary (crossing:continuous_way=pedestrian) or vice versa (crossing:continuous_way=tertiary).