Tag:highway=crossing

Pedestrians can cross a street here; e.g., zebra crossing. In American English, a marked or signalized crossing is known as a crosswalk. This tag is used exclusively for nodes.

How to map

To map a pedestrian crossing, place a node within the way representing the road, and set this highway=crossing tag on the node (not on the way).

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 crosswalk without traffic lights
  • crossing=marked (used by iD preset) - with crosswalk without traffic lights
  • crossing:island=yes/no - to tag whether there is an island (former tag crossing=island )
  • crossing=unmarked - without markings or traffic lights
  • 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 case of sidewalks mapped as separate ways it is necessary to add also crossing way, from one sidewalk through node shared with a road to the another 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

Example	Tagging
	highway=crossing crossing=marked crossing:island=no bicycle=no (as in this legal case cyclists must not cycle while using crossing and cycling on this sidewalk is legal, note that cycling on a crossed road is 100% legal)
	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 allowed
	highway=crossing crossing=traffic_signals crossing:island=no bicycle=yes
	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
• crossing=* - Further refinement for nodes already tagged with highway=crossing or railway=crossing

References

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