On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Eric Christensen <e...@christensenplace.us> wrote:
> 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]. > This seems a little complicated compared to other tagging schemes involving intermodal crossings; seems like the two tags could be merged with some supplemental tagging. I do like this challenge concept, however, given TIGER's somewhat lackluster modeling of railways, seems like a prerequisite challenge would be to tiger-review it and get the tracks actually lining up with reality first.
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