Tag:highway=crossing
 highway = crossing
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Pedestrian crossing 
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Pedestrians can cross a street here; e.g., zebra crossing. They are also called crosswalks in American English. This tag is used exclusively for nodes. For tagging pedestrian crosswalks as separate ways, use highway=footway and footway=crossing.
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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=marked - with crosswalk without traffic lights
- crossing=uncontrolled - with crosswalk without traffic lights
crossing=island- use instead crossing:island=yes/no- crossing=unmarked - without markings or traffic lights
See the Key:crossing page for additional documentation of this and many other available subtags.
footway=crossing and cycleway=crossing are sometimes used on ways which lead from a sidewalk to the crossing node (The node which has this highway=crossing tag).
This is not the preferred way of tagging, to indicate the width of the street have a look at kerb=*.
Rendering
- Shows up in OSM2World and in OSM France.
- OpenCycleMap:
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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=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
