Tag:highway=stop

+/- highway=stop Description Used to mark stop signs Used on these elements Useful combination Key:highway Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Undefined

Used to map a stop signs

Contents 1 How to map 1.1 As nodes on the ways approaching intersections 1.2 As tags at the intersection node 1.3 Tags on the ways

How to map

There are different views and proposals on how to map stop signs, but the methods can coexist (for now).

As nodes on the ways approaching intersections

Insert a node, on the way marking the highway, at the location where the driver must stop. This is the most commonly used method. Since the stop applies to only one direction, that direction can be deduced by finding the shortest distance to the next intersection.

As tags at the intersection node

Four-way stop signs could, sometimes, be collapsed into a highway=stop at the intersection node, but expect someone to later replace that with individual signs placed before the (possible) pedestrian crossings or similar features.

Tags on the ways

Some have tagged ways with one of

• stop=yes, stop=both, stop=all to indicate that there are stop signs at both ends of that way, or at only one end if it's a oneway road. Care should be taken to change the tags, if splitting such ways.

Related terms: halt. stop. control. pause. break. interrupt.