Is there a standard way of tagging railways hierarchically? I can't find anything in the wiki about this.
As with roads it would be nice to have data for what kind of railway line we are tagging. In many countries in Europe, e.g. Spain, different lines differ widely in the speed they can manage. There are high speed lines (max 300km/h or more), fast ones (max 200km/h), 19th century-like ones (80km/h or less)... Looking at tagwatch in France it seems that highspeed=yes has been used quite often. Of course that's cool but tagging with specific max speed would be better as there is no clear definition as to what high-speed rail is [1]. Also it is not only about speed, it would be good to have some kind of hierarchy that indicates whether a line is trunk, primary, secondary as with roads. That would help a lot in having sensible open rail maps, somebody posted recently in this list about a project to create rail maps for Europe, so I suppose there is some interest in this. What are people doing about this? Anybody can share their experiences? Thanks Jose [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
