Am 15.01.2010 15:43, schrieb Carsten Moeller: > Hey folks, > > first of all I'll have to apologize my bad english. > I also hope that this is the right place for my question. > > I'm playing around with pgRouting and OSM - mainly in the north of > Germany. (Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg) > I came across some annoying issues. > There are several islands that can only be reached by ferry or train. > So I filtered tags like railway=rail, route=ferry in combination with > motorway=yes (For the germans: you all should know the Hindenburdamm to > the island Sylt). > The first thing that is quite wrong is that streets are connected to > railroads the whole way long. In case of Sylt you exactly have one ramp > in Niebuell and another in Westerland (Sylt). In between you have to go > pickapack. By the way, it's the same problem with the ferries. > > So, as these kinds of transports' main purpose is "replacing" highways, > they should be regardes AS highways. > > So what about tags like > > highway = trailer_railway > highway = trailer_ferry > > we then could connect them to streets as if they were highways.
Just yesterday I've collected infos about a more general approach to this. However, I've focussed on the terminals and not on the way between them. The problem: This stuff is also available for "long distance" (e.g. overnight) travel from north to south europe with varying routes, so simply using highway=trailer_railway probably won't work well here. Maybe better using a relation for this? I've appended my first ideas for a proposal page. Regards, ULFL motorail Regular transportation of car/motorcycle "packed" on a train and travels to the destination. The driver travels together with it's vehicle and may need to stay inside the vehicle or travels in a normal (or sleeping) train waggon. Both short term (e.g. through the channel tunnel) and long term (e.g. overnight from Hamburg to Vienna) travels are common. This is *not* for plain car transportation, e.g. delivering a newly build car from the manufacturer to it's a customer. What to tag: The specific place to "board the train". Suggested tag: amenity=motorail_terminal (on node or area) name=* (e.g. Autozug Terminal München-Ost) operator=* (e.g. Deutsch Bahn AG) Clarify: Also tag route/destinations? Maybe using relations? See Also amenity=ferry_terminal Weblinks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorail http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoverladung (german) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
