Tag:highway=crossing

This tag is for the location of a street crossing for pedestrians, cyclists, or equestrians. In American English, a pedestrian crossing is called a crosswalk if it is marked or signalized. See Crossings for other kinds of crossings.

This tag is only used on nodes. If a crossing is also represented by a way, tag the way with a different highway=* value corresponding to the kind of path that crosses the street, for example highway=footway footway=crossing for a pedestrian crossing.

How to map

To map a street crossing, place a node along the way representing the road, and add the highway=crossing tag to the node.

To describe the type of the transition in more detail, use:

• crossing=*
  • crossing=traffic_signals - regulated with light signals
  • crossing=uncontrolled (used by JOSM preset) - with markings, without traffic lights
  • crossing=marked (used by iD preset) - with markings, with or without traffic lights
  • crossing=unmarked - without markings or traffic lights
• crossing:island=yes/no - to tag whether there is an island (former tag crossing=island )
• crossing:markings=* - to tag the existence and style of crossing markings
• crossing:signals=* - to tag the existence of traffic signals controlling traffic at the crossing
• crossing:continuous=* - to tag whether the path (footway, cycleway) continues visually uninterrupted across a road
• traffic_calming=table - Use this tag if the section of crossing is raised in comparison to the road it is crossing. Unfortunately, currently no tag is established to mark that it is not raised.
• foot=no - to tag that the crossing is not for pedestrians. Notice that a crossing tagged with foot=no may be crossing a road where pedestrians are allowed. (see also bicycle=no)
• bicycle=yes/no - to tag whether the crossing is also a cycleway crossing used by bicycles. Notice that a crossing tagged with bicycle=no may be crossing a road where cycling is allowed
• horse=yes/no - to tag whether the crossing is also a bridleway crossing used by horse riders.

See the Key:crossing page for additional documentation of this and many other available subtags.

Separately mapped footways

Main article: Sidewalks#Sidewalk as separate way

In cases where sidewalks are mapped as separate ways it is necessary to also add a crossing way, from one sidewalk through the node shared with the road to the other sidewalk. footway=crossing and cycleway=crossing can be used on ways which lead from a sidewalk to the crossing node (the node which has this highway=crossing tag).

Such split can be also done when footway/cycleway is crossing the road (part where it is crossing may tagged with footway=crossing / cycleway=crossing).

Examples

Urban crossing types

Crossing unmarked	Crossing with traffic calming	Crossing near a stop	Crossing with island
highway=crossing crossing=unmarked crossing:island=no	highway=crossing crossing=uncontrolled crossing_ref=zebra crossing:island=no traffic_calming=table Adding bicycle=no would be basically pointless, as on other crossings not attached to cycleways or footways where cycling is never allowed (note that the same crossing may benefit from bicycle=no if mapped in place where cyclists can use that sidewalk)	highway=crossing crossing=marked crossing:island=no bicycle=no - useful in case of cycling being legal at sidewalk but not while crossing road (it is in Poland so zebra crossing without bicycle crossing results in ban on cycling across road here, note that cycling on a crossed road is 100% legal here)	highway=crossing crossing=marked crossing:island=yes

Crossing by night

Crossing with traffic signals	Crossing lit
highway=crossing crossing=traffic_signals crossing:island=no crossing:signals=yes bicycle=yes	highway=crossing crossing=uncontrolled crossing_ref=zebra lit=yes crossing:island=no pictogram=yes

Rural crossing types

Crossing & golf cart	Crossing & horse
highway=crossing golf_cart=yes	highway=crossing horse=yes

Rendering

• Shows up in OSM2World and in OSM France.
• OpenCycleMap: , bicycle=yes
• It also is displayed in the JOSM Editor

Routing

Used by OsmAnd, a routing software, to signal and alert.

See also

• railway=crossing - Pedestrians can cross a railway here
• railway=level_crossing - A crossing between a railway and a road
• railway=tram_crossing - A tram crosses the pedestrian way here
• railway=tram_level_crossing - A tram crosses the road here
• railway=railway_crossing - Crossing rails that do not interconnect
• railway=switch - A railway switch
• osm-yolo-crossings - AI import tool for zebra crossings
• Guidelines for pedestrian navigation

References

Related terms: ‹ interchange › ‹ traverse › ‹ junction › ‹ intersection › ‹ passage › ‹ crossing › ‹ cross walk › ‹ crosswalk ›