Proposal:Hitchhiking
| Tag:hitchhiking=yes | |
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| Proposal status: | Proposed (under way) |
| Proposed by: | Tillwenke |
| Tagging: | hitchhiking=yes |
| Applies to: |  ,  ,  , 
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| Definition: | A place, that is intended and signed for hitchhiking. Either by using your thumb or asking around. |
| Statistics: |
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| Rendered as: | A hitchhiker thumb |
| Draft started: | 2008-02-01 |
| Proposed on: | 2023-01-14 |
Idea
The hitchwiki community would appreciate having a place-tag for hitchhiking places. If someone preferes this kind of travelling, they can find official places on openstreetmap.
Hitchhiking is a mean of transformation that is being characterized by the following:
- free
- spontaneous thus uncertain
- with strangers
Those principles should not be in question and not necessary to explain at the tagged place.
https://hitchmap.com/ already provides those spots where one can hitchhike. Most of them are unofficial spots at a road so impossible to map and no difference is made between official/unofficial spots. For such maps it would be powerful to provide a unified, world-wide source of truth and common mapping format.
Only allow this tag where hitchhiking is legal this might come down to country or kind of road level. But do not use `hitchhiking=no` for those features as this information is implicit.
What is intended to be mapped?
- labelled hitchhinking benches
- hitchhiking stations with a sign
- parking lots that were also explicitly designed for what is described above as the principles of hitchhinking and signed as such
Alternative Tagging Ideas
1.
- hitchhiking=informal → to mark often used hitch-hiking spots by the local hitch-hiking community (may be not precise enough).
- hitchhiking=official → to mark official hitch-hiking spots (built or encouraged by the legal authorities) ; can’t be used with “illegal” and “informal”, nor “access=private” ; this one would render on the map as a thumb.
- hitchhiking=illegal → to mark where it is illegal to hitch-hike (unnecessary if there is access:private)
Ongoing Discussion
- https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-tag-proposal-hitchhiking/108126 (this RFC)
- https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/t/des-points-dautostop/18133 (French, affecting the Rezo Pouce stops)
Affected pages
Related
Official hitchhiking benches proposal Rideshare proposal
Comments
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