Start of voting: Flashing lights design + broading the definition of flashing-lights

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Hi all,

I’m opening voting for the proposal [“Flashing lights design”](Proposal:Tag:flashing lights:design - OpenStreetMap Wiki)

You can find the [original discussion here/start of RFC here](Tagging proposal: flashing_lights:design)

Tagging proposal: flashing_lights:design
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flashing_lights:design=standard is just asking for trouble given that different parts of world may have different default and standard designs

( see Tagging proposal: flashing_lights:design - #4 by Mateusz_Konieczny )

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I kind off skipped over your comment in the sea of other comments; but I also don’t like the “flashing_orange”-term you coined there, for two reasons:

  • I feel that the colour of the flashing light should not be included in the tag value, but I’m a bit conflicted about this
  • “flashing” is already implied by the “flashing_light”-part of the key. I’d rather prefer something that describes the enclosure of the light.
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then why non-orange ones are excluded by

A plain, orange flashing light. Note that the signal face (the drawing on the light) is not relevant for this tag.

definition?

For example white flashing light cannot be tagged as flashing_lights:design=standard

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Hmmm, that isn’t very consistent of me indeed… Will look into it later

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No, single aspect traffic signals are still traffic signals.

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Allright, I did put this thing into voting way to early, this proposal was clearly immature.

I swapped ‘standard’, as in Europe, the thing that looks like a traffic light is what we mostly see. This also neatly illustrates the problem with a generic term as ‘standard’.