Key:crossing:markings
| crossing:markings |
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| The existence and style of pedestrian crossing markings |
| Group: Crossings |
| Used on these elements |
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| Useful combination |
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crossing=* |
| Status: approved |
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For the purposes of crossing:markings=*, 'markings' shall be those markings on the ground meant to draw attention to the area where pedestrians are to cross the road. The standard for these markings can vary from country to country, but are usually required to be the same colour as the other road markings, in high visibility white or yellow. This is most commonly done with paint or bright bricks.
Values
This tag is most commonly used in conjunction with highway=crossing but can also be used with railway=crossing when the crossing area is marked.
For the purposes of documentation and discussion, markings parallel to the crossed road should be referred to as 'bars' while markings orthogonal to the roadway should be referred to as 'lines'.
| Key | Value | Diagram | Description | Example |
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| crossing:markings | yes | An unspecified or unknown crossing marking. Can also be used in document any crossing marking which hasn't been documented. | ||
| crossing:markings | no | The absence of crossing markings at a crossing. Implied by crossing=unmarked. May be useful in combination with crossing=traffic_signals where there is no marking on the ground, but there is a pedestrian signal. | ||
| crossing:markings | surface | A crossing which is not differentiated by high visibility road markings, but only by a change in surface. Depending on the jurisdiction, this may or may not be considered a proper crossing. Additional details can be added with the established tags surface=* and surface:colour=*.
crossing:markings=solid has been discussed to document crossing markings which are all high-vis paint for the width of the crossing, but it has been determined that this is too rare (and confusing to mappers) to merit a top level entry in the schema. |
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| crossing:markings | lines | Lines on either side of the crossing (U.S.: "standard/transverse"; Canada: "twin parallel lines") | ||
| crossing:markings | lines:paired | Pairs of lines on either side of the crossing. | ||
| crossing:markings | dashes | Dashed lines on either side of the crossing. Used in some countries (such as Germany) at (nearly) all signalized crossings. | ||
| crossing:markings | dots | Dotted lines on either side of the crossing. The dots sometimes are reflectors slightly raised from the carriageway. (U.S.: "dashed") | ||
| crossing:markings | rainbow | This article or section contains questionable, contentious or controversial information. See the talk page for more information. |
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| crossing:markings | lines:rainbow | This article or section contains questionable, contentious or controversial information. See the talk page for more information. |
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| Zebra style crossings | ||||
| crossing:markings | zebra | Regularly spaced bars along the length of the crossing. (Called "continental" in the United States.) | ||
| crossing:markings | zebra:double | The similar to zebra, but split in the middle. (U.S.: "triple-four") | ||
| crossing:markings | zebra:paired | Like a zebra crossing but skipping every third bar to avoid premature tire wear. (U.S.: "double-paired") | ||
| crossing:markings | zebra:bicolour | A zebra crossing with alternating colours. The colours can be tagged using crossing:markings:colour=*. | ||
| crossing:markings | zebra:rainbow | This article or section contains questionable, contentious or controversial information. See the talk page for more information. |
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| Ladder style markings | ||||
| crossing:markings | ladder | Lines perpendicular to the roadway along with bars parallel to the roadway. | ||
| crossing:markings | ladder:skewed | Two lines orthogonal to the direction of the roadway with diagonal bars connecting the two lines. Sometimes confusingly referred to as "zebra" in the United States. | ||
| crossing:markings | ladder:paired | Ladder-style markings with the bars paired together. | ||
| Pictogram crossing markings | ||||
| crossing:markings | pictograms | Painted pictogram(s) of pedestrian and/or bicycle (with or without arrows) | ||
More values may be documented as they are discovered or invented by governments.
More difficult cases
In the case of segregated crossings for pedestrians and cyclists, this can be tagged separately as cycleway:crossing:markings=* and footway:crossing:markings=*.
The color of the markings can be specified using the standard colour=* scheme (e.g. crossing:markings:colour=yellow).
Multiple values of crossing:markings=* can be separated by a semicolon to specify multiple patterns atop each other (see examples below).
Although quite rare, if a crossing has markings which change within a single crossing, one can tag this most precisely by splitting the crossing way and tagging the individual segments with the appropriate value of crossing:markings=*. The highway=crossing node should still be tagged with the most prominent value for crossing:markings=* or simply crossing:markings=yes.
Examples
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The most accurate way to tag this would be However, simply tagging the markings as crossing:markings=zebra shouldn't be considered "wrong", simply a less detailed description. Note: Dots refers to the very small markings right besides the zebra bars. The more prominent dashed give-way-lines are a separate feature. | |
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A segregated foot and cycle crossing
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A shared pedestrian and cyclist crossing
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Artistic crosswalk This crosswalk is painted in various colors, but it isn't a solid marking; the white lines are still required for it to be a legal crosswalk (in the US). |
Where crossing:markings is not appropriate
Buffer markings
These markings act as a painted curb extension for pedestians, somewhat common in Germany.
crossing:buffer_marking=* was proposed to document this. See Berlin/Verkehrswende/Gehwege for more details (in German).
Look left/look right markings
These markings should not be included in crossing:markings=* as they serve a different role from a crossing markings.
No scheme has been proposed to document these (yet).
Support
- iD has included a preset with icons.
See also
- lane_markings=* - Specifies if a highway has painted markings to indicate the position of the lanes
- highway=crossing - The location of a designated street crossing for pedestrians, cyclists, or equestrians
- footway=crossing - Specifies that the footway is a road crossing