Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-08 Thread Mike N
On 4/8/2017 10:31 AM, Tristan Anderson wrote: Where a tram line shares a right-of-way with the street, that is, where I can drive my car down the tracks, no crossing tag is necessary as the whole street is one big level crossing. Where it's separate, railway=level_crossing should be used.

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-08 Thread Tristan Anderson
as this is implied by the way the highway is crossing. From: Mike N <nice...@att.net> Sent: April 4, 2017 5:03 PM To: tagging@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams? On 4/4/2017 4:42 PM, Jo wrote: > Any su

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Mike N
On 4/4/2017 4:42 PM, Jo wrote: Any suggestions for a tag? Or leave those crossings untagged? It's quite obvious from the geometry there is a crossing and quite logical that it's level. It would be convenient for data consumers to have the crossing explicitly tagged without having to examine

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Mike N
On 4/4/2017 4:42 PM, Jo wrote: OK, then we'll take all of them away in Brussels, where I did this extensively. The problem is that OsmAnd is constantly warning for railway crossings now, so that is annoying. That sounds like a data consumer problem - option or never to warn if crossing is

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Jo
OK, then we'll take all of them away in Brussels, where I did this extensively. The problem is that OsmAnd is constantly warning for railway crossings now, so that is annoying. Any suggestions for a tag? Or leave those crossings untagged? It's quite obvious from the geometry there is a crossing

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 4 Apr 2017, at 22:13, Mike N wrote: > > A vehicle traveling either of those streets would indeed see that as a > crossing - it does actually cross paths with the tram track. +1, in the real world there are traffic lights to control this situation. I

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Mike N
On 4/4/2017 3:37 PM, Michal Fabík wrote: I think Albert Pundt was asking about cases like this section of tram tracks here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/154321049. Should it be mapped with two level crossings where it intersects with the northbound lanes of the Friedrichstrasse and the

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Michal Fabík
On 4.4.2017 20:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: for example here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1668685086#map=19/52.52616/13.38725 I think Albert Pundt was asking about cases like this section of tram tracks here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/154321049. Should it be mapped with two

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-04-04 19:56 GMT+02:00 Mike N : > and as well the OSM model of "street as centerline" doesn't model the > actual crossing well in some cases. In the case of railway infrastructure (tram lines) those are often mapped on their actual position (i.e. in a standard case of no

Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

2017-04-04 Thread Mike N
On 4/4/2017 1:42 PM, Albert Pundt wrote: For trams/trolleys running along a street, is it necessary to have railway=level_crossing at every cross street? It seems strange considering that the entire street is one big level crossing. That was a question I had also, but looked at some places in