On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:43:50 AM Greg Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techl...@techlady.com> > > wrote: > > Matijn, > > > > By the way, what is the difference between "crossing" and > > > > "level_crossing"? > > I treat highway=crossing the same as railway=crossing. That would be a > place where a horse, bike, skateboard, foot path, etc. would cross the > railway. I also apply all the related highway=crossing tags to the > railway=crossing nodes. I've used this mostly around light rail crossings.
I think highway=crossing is for pedestrian crossing on a highway, not a railroad. The wiki[0] specifically calls this out. railway=crossing is for pedestrian crossing of a railway[1] and railway=level_crossing is where a highway crosses a railway[2]. [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcrossing [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dcrossing [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dlevel_crossing --Eric _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
