Tag:crossing=traffic_signals

This tag is used for traffic light controlled pedestrian crossings.

Some mappers instead use crossing:signals=* in combination with crossing=marked or crossing=unmarked, because some unmarked crossings are also signalized or have unknown signalization.

How to map

Set a node on the highway where the transition is and add highway=crossing + crossing=traffic_signals.

Draw a way which can be used by pedestrians to cross the road and add tags highway=footway + footway=crossing + crossing=traffic_signals.

Nearby can also be a traffic light (highway=traffic_signals) on another node.

Tags to use in combination

• traffic_signals:sound=yes/no - Indicates that sound is emitted on crossing=traffic_signals when crossing is permitted
• traffic_signals:vibration=yes/no - Indicates that vibrations occur on crossing=traffic_signals when crossing is permitted
• tactile_paving=yes/no - Indicates whether a blind or visually impaired pedestrian can detect or follow the feature using a cane
• wheelchair=* - Indicate if a special place can be used with wheelchairs
• crossing:island=yes/no - Specifies whether a pedestrian crossing has a refuge island
• lit=yes/no - Indicates whether a feature is lit
• crossing:markings=* - The existence and style of pedestrian crossing markings

Software support

Renderers

OsmAnd draws gray and white stripes along the crossing way and adds a red-and-green, two-aspect pedestrian signal pictogram at the crossing node. Andy Townsend's England and Wales rural pedestrian style marks the crossing with a three-aspect vehicular signal pictogram, just like a highway=traffic_signals node. [1] Organic Maps similarly equates this tag with highway=traffic_signals. [2]

AB Street infers a stop line at the crossing. [3][4] Straßenraumkarte Neukölln draws a white dashed line along both sides of the crossing way [5] and reserves a parking-free buffer zone around the crossing that is larger than for crossing=marked. [6]

Routers

OsmAnd penalizes the crossing by more time than crossing=uncontrolled and crossing=unmarked. [7] OpenTripPlanner also applies an extra penalty to the crossing [8], and a proposed blind user mode in Valhalla would do the same. [9] BRouter's default car profile penalizes the crossing the same as it would penalize a highway=traffic_signals node. [10]

GraphHopper infers crossing:signals=yes from crossing=traffic_signals. [11]

Possible tagging mistakes

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More details at taginfo

• crossing=traffic_lights ‒ Consider to use crossing=traffic_signals

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

See also

• highway=traffic_signals - A traffic signal (or a set of those) for regulating circulation.