Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Richard Weait]

2012/2/21 Pierre Béland :
> Sam
>
> Place=locality tag is reserved for populated areas. It is misleading to use
> it for a milestone. I suggest to adapt the highway=milestone tag for
> railways. This type of tag is showed at lower zoom levels.=

Continue this discussion on the tagging list.  If a good reason exists
to use unique Canadian tagging, we can do that.  Ignorance of the
international consensus is not a good reason. :-)

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Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Pierre Béland]

Sam 

Place=locality tag is reserved for populated areas. It is misleading to use it 
for a milestone. I suggest to adapt the highway=milestone tag for railways. 
This type of tag is showed at lower zoom levels.





Pierre Béland 
  




De : Sam Dyck 
Date/heure : 2012-02-21  10:33:08 
A : kliems; matthew.ian.buchanan 
Cc : tagging; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap 
Sujet : [Talk-ca] Named railway locations 
 
Hi
I have always just used place=locality, see
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=56.5643012523651&lon=-94.0601348876953&zoom=16.
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[Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Sam Dyck]

Hi

I have always just used place=locality, see
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=56.5643012523651&lon=-94.0601348876953&zoom=16.

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Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Gordon Dewis]

I like the railway=named_location because that, to me, is an accurate 
representation of reality.

  --G
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Buchanan 
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:16:00 
To: Harald Kliems
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Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

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Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Matthew Buchanan]

How about (for a node)
railway=station
passenger=no

OR
railway=named_location
OR
railway=poi

-- Matthew Buchanan
-- Kamloops, BC

The various pages on railway tagging don't seem to provide an obvious
> tag for this situation, presumable because these named points don't
> exist in many other countries. It has been suggested to use the
> generic place=locality tag, but that doesn't seem to be ideal to me.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to tag?
>
>   
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[Talk-ca] Named railway locations

[Harald Kliems]

We recently had a discussion on the talk-ca list about named railway
locations that had been tagged as railway=station (see this thread).
It was proposed to take the discussion to the tagging list in order to
come to a consensus that's consistent and in line with other
countries.

To quickly summarize the issue: there are a lot of railway=station
tags in places where there is no train station. Instead, they are what
has been described as follows:

>  FYI, I work for a railway for what it's worth. Pretty much every 10
> miles or so is a named location. I wouldn't tag it as a station but a
> POI seems appropriate to me as a railroader :-) Rail fans would also use
> the POI as reference points for photography and video.
>
>   Trains communicating with the dispatcher use these locations to
> identify their location.

>Us railway folks, these name POI are part of our general conversation,
> such as 73 is approaching Ridout.

> The names are chosen  using a similar process as say bridge names. The
> could refer to a respected employee or as a memorial to an employee who
> died while on duty. Around Ingersoll are Blain and Lihou who where
> engineers who died in a head on train collision.

Two examples in Montreal can be seen here ("Cape" and "Bridge")
http://osm.org/go/cIrPCS5Q

The various pages on railway tagging don't seem to provide an obvious
tag for this situation, presumable because these named points don't
exist in many other countries. It has been suggested to use the
generic place=locality tag, but that doesn't seem to be ideal to me.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to tag?

 Harald.

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