[Voting] Feature Proposal - Deprecate crossing=zebra in favor of crossing:markings

[alan_gr (Alan)]

@Yog_Sot

you should really understand why it doesnt matter how tag is called, but what it actually means

Agreed. Ideally the meaning of a tag would match its meaning in plain English, but sometimes that is not the case. Which requires mappers to have a shared understanding of what the tag “really means”. Which is all fine in general. But jn the case of crossing=marked and unmarked specifically…

@Yog_Sot

The crossing is not marked by markings which mean that vehicles have to yeld and so it falls under the group of unmarked

… where did this meaning come from? How are the markings related to who has priority? It is not implied by the plain English meaning, and the wiki page for crossing=marked doesn’t say anything about priority. How would mappers know that the the tag value in this case should be the complete opposite of the plain English meaning?

I’m not American by the way. But it would never occur to me to tag a crossing with markings on the street as unmarked.

@Yog_Sot

same all across the world.
It’s the JOSM ppl who came up with zebra and marked

How so, in the case of “marked”? According to the wiki the explosive growth of “marked” was associated with its use in ID presets from 2018 to 2022.