Sven Geggus wrote: > All I said is that there > is no such beast as a generic incline railroad.
But there is such a thing as a railroad which is known to be incline, but for which the drive system is unknown. As I understand it, there are standard railways which have rack-driven sections, so some way to indicate that independent of the railway value is definitely needed in any case. And there are definitely entirely cable-driven rail systems (e.g. the San Francisco cable car system). This could be handled with something like railway=tram, cable=yes, or with something like railway=tram, traction=cable. And there are other incline railways, not part of the standard rail system, which may be: * unknown drive type * funicular * other cable-driven systems * rack drive * other drive type However, as far as I am aware, the following do not exist: * railways which are both cable- and rack-driven in the same section * railways which are cable-driven for only a section * funiculars connected to a main rail system I've updated my proposal at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Incline_railway to reflect this. -Alex Mauer "hawke" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
