A number of areas in the UK (and the world) have painted crossings in LGBT+ pride rainbow colours to support LGBT+ rights.

In the UK at least, these are often referred to as ‘rainbow crossings’. They don’t always look the same, with some using different colours/pride flags.

Image of rainbow crossing by Matt Brown used under Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0 license.

Here’s a recent example from Bristol, a city in the South West of England: https://www.bristol247.com/lgbtq/news-lgbtq/bristol-gets-its-first-rainbow-crossing/ .

Here’s two in a London borough: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/first_rainbow_crossings_unveiled

and another: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51446121

one at Surrey University: https://my.surrey.ac.uk/news/introducing-our-new-rainbow-crossing

And here’s one in New Zealand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Street_rainbow_crossing

In the UK, these seem to usually be (maybe always?) regular button-operated controlled crossings with traffic lights, just with LGBT+ rainbow paint where the crossing is.

There is some talk from 2019 here osm.wiki/Talk:Key:lgbtq on how to map these, but I’m not sure it was very definitive and I’m not sure I’m a fan of it - these crossings are a known ‘thing’, so to me it seems clunky to tag it as artwork each time.

What are everyones thoughts?