Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-29 Thread Jack Armstrong
ging] line=* tag on railway lines May 29, 2020, 19:56 by fl.infosrese...@gmail.com:HiLe ven. 29 mai 2020 à 00:03, Jack Armstrong <jacknst...@sprynet.com> a écrit :I think naming the same thing two times is not a best practice? IndeedI'd use name=* on rails only if rai

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-29 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
May 29, 2020, 19:56 by fl.infosrese...@gmail.com: > Hi > > Le ven. 29 mai 2020 à 00:03, Jack Armstrong <> jacknst...@sprynet.com> > a > écrit : > >> >> I think naming the same thing two times is not a best practice? >> >> > Indeed > I'd use name=* on rails only if rails actually have a

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-29 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Le ven. 29 mai 2020 à 00:03, Jack Armstrong a écrit : > > I think naming the same thing two times is not a best practice? > > Indeed I'd use name=* on rails only if rails actually have a name. According to this discussion, may I remove the line=* railway chapter on wiki?

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread Jack Armstrong
. I think naming the same thing two times is not a best practice? -Original Message- >From: Kevin Kenny >Sent: May 28, 2020 2:20 PM >To: Jack Armstrong , "Tag discussion, strategy and related >tools" >Subject: Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines > &

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread Volker Schmidt
I just had a quick go on the key:line. There seems to be a plethora of meanings of this tag, some so obscure that I have not the faintest idea what they mean. Try this overpass turbo Wizard search search “type:way and highway=* and line=*” and try to make sense of the results. Volker On Thu,

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread François Lacombe
Hi Le jeu. 28 mai 2020 à 21:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> a écrit : > > Yes, name tag is for name of the object. > I agree I'd be in favour of removing such mention on wiki wouldn't you? Le jeu. 28 mai 2020 à 21:56, Jack Armstrong a écrit : > If the rail is

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:56 PM Jack Armstrong wrote: > I have wondered for a long time... > > If the rail is tagged name=* but the railway also has a relation with the > same name, isn't this naming something twice? it seems to me the relation is > sufficient and the rail itself should not be

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread Jack Armstrong
Sent: May 28, 2020 1:13 PM To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" Cc: Mateusz Konieczny Subject: Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines May 28, 2020, 20:36 by fl.infosrese...@gmail.com:Hi all,On the line=* wiki page, it is mentioned this key is used to gi

Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
May 28, 2020, 20:36 by fl.infosrese...@gmail.com: > Hi all, > > On the line=* wiki page, it is mentioned this key is used to give railway > lines names in combination with branch=* > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:line > > Shouldn't name=* be used instead? > Yes, name tag is for name

[Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines

2020-05-28 Thread François Lacombe
Hi all, On the line=* wiki page, it is mentioned this key is used to give railway lines names in combination with branch=* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:line Shouldn't name=* be used instead? I don't know the use case precisely, may someone more familiar with railway lines could give