Re: [Tagging] How to tag railroad named control points?
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:20 AM, John Sturdy wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote: >> My employer is a contractor for a few railroads, and through that experience >> I have gained personal knowlege of several named "control points" for one >> railroad in particular. A control point typically consists of signals >> facing both ways, switch tracks to transfer between multiple mainline tracks >> if applicable, and often signs displaying the name of the control point. >> While the extents of a control point are not sharply defined (as far as I >> know) they can be roughly described as a few hundred feet long and as wide >> as the railroad right-of-way in most cases. >> >> How should such a feature appear in OSM? A single node? An area-way around >> the associated physical features? A relation with several nodes as members? >> And what tags are appropriate? Does this count as a new feature I should >> propose? > > I think a relation is probably better for this than an area. Further > details would depend on whether the railway has been traced as > separate ways for each track, or as one way with a track count. > > I think it's worth documenting as a feature type. If there is some feature along a railroad that is mappable, chances are it has been covered somewhere on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:OpenRailwayMap/Erweitertes_Tagging Unfortunately all the descriptions are in German and the page is huge so good luck finding it :) Toby ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] How to tag railroad named control points?
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote: > My employer is a contractor for a few railroads, and through that experience > I have gained personal knowlege of several named "control points" for one > railroad in particular. A control point typically consists of signals > facing both ways, switch tracks to transfer between multiple mainline tracks > if applicable, and often signs displaying the name of the control point. > While the extents of a control point are not sharply defined (as far as I > know) they can be roughly described as a few hundred feet long and as wide > as the railroad right-of-way in most cases. > > How should such a feature appear in OSM? A single node? An area-way around > the associated physical features? A relation with several nodes as members? > And what tags are appropriate? Does this count as a new feature I should > propose? I think a relation is probably better for this than an area. Further details would depend on whether the railway has been traced as separate ways for each track, or as one way with a track count. I think it's worth documenting as a feature type. __John ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
[Tagging] How to tag railroad named control points?
My employer is a contractor for a few railroads, and through that experience I have gained personal knowlege of several named "control points" for one railroad in particular. A control point typically consists of signals facing both ways, switch tracks to transfer between multiple mainline tracks if applicable, and often signs displaying the name of the control point. While the extents of a control point are not sharply defined (as far as I know) they can be roughly described as a few hundred feet long and as wide as the railroad right-of-way in most cases. How should such a feature appear in OSM? A single node? An area-way around the associated physical features? A relation with several nodes as members? And what tags are appropriate? Does this count as a new feature I should propose? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
