Richard, Why 'should' they be a tram stop? Is that a convention I don't know about? I can't derive it from the descriptions in the wiki.
The local situation here in Salt Lake is actually a little more complicated. TRAX is definitely a light rail system (With Siemens SD-100 and Avanto sets) but for significant stretches runs on former heavy rail trackbeds that the transit authority owned or bought the rights of way of. As far as I can tell the original heavy rail tracks are used, at least on some stretches. Of course new signaling and overhead wires were installed. Martijn On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Richard Mann < richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Trams and street-running light rail should have railway=tram_stop. Put > in a sub-tag if you want to distinguish different types. > > If your light-rail system runs onto heavy rail (eg famously in > Karlsruhe), and shares stations with heavy rail passenger services, > then use railway=station on the clearly heavy rail sections. > > I'd avoid using railway=light_rail in marginal cases - I think some > people use it for S-bahn services (loco-hauled double-deck carriages; > definitely not lightweight!), and the tagging isn't entirely helpful > > Richard > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > >> A light rail stop, would that be a railway=tram_stop or a > railway=station? > > > > Sounds like a third option is required. Here (Melbourne, Australia) > > tram stops vary from just a sign on a telephone pole to "super stops" > > (raised platforms, safety barriers and ticket machines) to former > > train stations that now only serve light rails. The first are clearly > > "railway=tram_stop", the last are really "railway=station" (but it > > would be misleading to render them exactly the same as a real train > > station), but the super stops are really something else, some subclass > > of tram_stop maybe. > > > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- martijn van exel schaaltreinen.nl
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