Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-26 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Steve Doerr wrote: Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote in message news:201005221952.30724.roland.olbri...@gmx.de... - railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a different meaning: station designates stations where trains can begin or terminate. halt

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-26 Thread Liz
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Can a station be an isolated dwelling ? Just kidding... Almost - usually the station master had his own house. Now if it was isolated it wouldn't get staff either However as apparently only 4 people now live at Cook, which is an essential stop for

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/26 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: Can a station be an isolated dwelling ? Just kidding... you might be kidding, but it actually can be, it's one of the cases for which this place-vakue was introduced. Cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Can a station be an isolated dwelling ? Just kidding... you might be kidding, but it actually can be, it's one of the cases for which this place-vakue was introduced. I think he referred to the Aussie meaning of station which means an isolated farm and has

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-26 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/26 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: I think he referred to the Aussie meaning of station which means an isolated farm and has nothing to do with railways. OK, I got it, but actually IMHO isolated farms can as well be mapped with place=isolated_dwelling and a farm-tag aside. cheers,

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Doerr
Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de wrote in message news:201005221952.30724.roland.olbri...@gmx.de... - railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a different meaning: station designates stations where trains can begin or terminate. halt means (usually smaller)

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-24 Thread Rory McCann
On 22/05/10 23:34, Liz wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010, Roland Olbricht wrote: - railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a different meaning: station designates stations where trains can begin or terminate. halt means (usually smaller) stations where trains only stop but

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/23 Liz ed...@billiau.net: Ahh, interesting Station in Au means it has a platform, and implies an office, a permanent employee and hopefully a toilet as well. the same in Germany, but permanent employees are less frequent now, because of cost reduction. Halt means there is no

[OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Arun Ganesh
I recently got addicted to mapping the railway network in India in detail using landsat imagery. Since i wasnt able to find any other railway mapping project which specified detailed mapping conventions, i came up with my own scheme which i've compiled here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Roland Olbricht
I recently got addicted to mapping the railway network in India in detail using landsat imagery. Good news for the map :) This is really great work. Since i wasnt able to find any other railway mapping project which specified detailed mapping conventions, i came up with my own scheme which

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Jens Müller
Am 22.05.2010 19:52, schrieb Roland Olbricht: Rails within a city (which usually serve for mass transit within the city) should be tagged as railway=tram or railway=light_rail. Please add this to the wiki page to prevent somebody else from mapping them on error as railway=rail or something

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Liz
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Roland Olbricht wrote: - railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a different meaning: station designates stations where trains can begin or terminate. halt means (usually smaller) stations where trains only stop but legally can't begin or end. To

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Liz
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Jens Müller wrote: Rails within a city (which usually serve for mass transit within the city) should be tagged as railway=tram or railway=light_rail. Please add this to the wiki page to prevent somebody else from mapping them on error as railway=rail or something else.

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 08:36, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: The massive Sydney rail system used for mass transport is *railway* They are not light_rail. Tramway implies that the vehicle shares the street with the cars and bicycles and trucks. In Sydney the tramway diverges from the roadway at various

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 02:07, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Railways freight lines. Let me know what you guys think. If you want to specify width, use the width=* tag, guage is a subset of width but was defined in various countries to mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 23 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 23 May 2010 08:36, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: The massive Sydney rail system used for mass transport is *railway* They are not light_rail. Tramway implies that the vehicle shares the street with the cars and bicycles and trucks. In Sydney the

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 09:59, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: And this isn't a defining thing anyway, because in Rockhampton the railway goes down the middle of the main road for some distance. Was/is that for cane trains? (light rail) ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 May 2010 10:06, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 May 2010 09:59, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: And this isn't a defining thing anyway, because in Rockhampton the railway goes down the middle of the main road for some distance. Was/is that for cane trains?

Re: [OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

2010-05-22 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 23 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 23 May 2010 09:59, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: And this isn't a defining thing anyway, because in Rockhampton the railway goes down the middle of the main road for some distance. Was/is that for cane trains? (light rail) no, the main