Volker, sorry for the double response, forgot to replay-all so this would go back to the list.
Ways. The original use of Reporting Marks in NA is for rolling stock identification, yes. However, it's also the only common, reliable, and consistent short form abbreviation for operators. It's widely used that way in both the railroad industry here and among the industry-connected portions of the public. So, not an official defined use of the mark, but so common in use that it is effectively industry standard here. For example, the FRA, the official US government agency in control of railway regulations, exclusively uses the reporting marks (and not full operator name) for identification of ways and routes in their GIS database ( https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/ which is OSM-compatible and already being used as a reference in the US). Hence, we have an official and authoritative source for which reporting mark is "primary" for each company, and most appropriate to use - and it's already used as the operator identification in the government map. All larger railroads do own (and often use) multiple different reporting marks for their equipment, but all also have a single, best known, "primary" reporting mark by which it will be commonly known, so this proposal is effective even for lines with multiple registered marks (especially with the help of the FRA map to clarify any inconsistencies). Chuck On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:35 AM Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Question on the term "reporting_mark" > Wikipedia defines "reporting_mark" as "code used to identify owners or > lessees of rolling stock <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_stock> > and other equipment" and describes such codes alo in other parts of the > world. > In your discussion you seem to refer to railway lines or routes and not to > rolling stock. > > What kind objects in OSM will carry the tag reporting_mark=* ? > > Volker > (Italy) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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