United Kingdom/Detailed Pedestrian Crossing Mapping

This page attempts to provide more detailed suggestions for standard approaches to tagging various types of pedestrian crossing in the UK, and many of the associated details (largely related to accessibility). See initial email on talk-gb.

For general detailed advice on crossing see crossing=*.

Principal Types of Crossing in the UK

'unofficial Zebra'

Zebra-crossing style black and white lines are painted at pedestrian crossings at many locations on roads which are not public highways: e.g., car parks, hospital and university campuses. Technically these are not zebra crossings because they lack both one or more Belisha beacons and the zigzag no parking lines which are mandatory for zebra crossings on public roads.

A working position might be to assume every crossing_ref=zebra on a highway=service is one of these. However some larger campuses do have roads which mappers have chosen to include in the regular highway hierarchy.

Crossing Details

Timing Countdown Indicator

A screen showing how many seconds left before the pedestrian phase ('green man') finishes.

Example(s): Regent Square 2624195136 2624195136

Tagging: There seem to be a number of tags in use with countdown_signal=* most used (limited usage around Morden in the UK, but more or less confined to Toronto). More consistent with other detailed crossing tags is the crossing:countdown=yes, in use solely to map a junction in Wood Green on Lordship Lane. Further usage on taginfo

Vibration Devices

See [1] and [2]

Tagging:

Islands (Pedestrian Refuges)

See crossing:island=*