Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned >> railway? > > Then it's already tagged as a rail trail. Which tag should be used, though? _

Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-07-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote: What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned railway? Then it's already tagged as a rail trail. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/t

Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-06-28 Thread Phil! Gold
* Nathan Edgars II [2012-06-27 12:59 -0400]: > But another popular kind of rail trail, a "rail with trail", cannot > be found in this manner. [snip] > Does anyone have any ideas for tagging? The simplest would be > something like rail_with_trail=yes or maybe railway=adjacent. Either of those woul

Re: [Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-06-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/27/2012 10:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Ideally a map of rail trails should include them (e.g. the one in Trains magazine's May 2011 issue), but there's no easy way to determine if a trail is one. I would map the ways independently when the trail is adjacent to the rails. Duh? The

[Talk-us] Rails with trails

2012-06-27 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Currently it's simple enough to find most (correctly-tagged) rail trails in the database: find anything tagged railway=abandoned and highway=[one of the trail values]. These trails are usually flatter than roads, and are therefore well-suited for long-distance cycling. But another popular kind