[Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I've just been bitten by the minority, largely undocumented usage of railway:historic=rail on a bunch of dismantled/abandoned railways in Britain. Having exported some OSM data and done a few days' manual processing on it, I belatedly find that various lines are missing due to not taking

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Taginfo/Taginfo GB suggest that railway:historic=rail is not used much elsewhere in the world, and that railway=abandoned, =disused and =dismantled remain the popular choices. No client software appears to take any notice of railway:historic=rail. Would there be any

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Barnett, Phillip
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Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread sk53.osm
I don't think Richard's original post was an invitation to discuss arcane quirks of Britain's historical railway system. I have raised the issue of wholesale tag changing several times recently, and as this tagging is clearly not with the consensus of mappers either in the UK or elsewhere, I

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Lester Caine
sk53.osm wrote: I don't think Richard's original post was an invitation to discuss arcane quirks of Britain's historical railway system. I have raised the issue of wholesale tag changing several times recently, and as this tagging is clearly not with the consensus of mappers either in the UK or

Re: [Talk-GB] associatedParking relation

2013-05-13 Thread sk53.osm
Copied to list too. An interesting idea, but I don't like the idea of namespacing roles: relations are complicated enough. At the moment the access tag should do this. I'd like to keep the relation simple for now so am very much looking for a convenient catch-all name for the business to which

Re: [Talk-GB] railway:historic=rail

2013-05-13 Thread Andy Allan
On 13 May 2013 11:49, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Would there be any opposition to gradually reverting uses of this tag to railway=dismantled/abandoned, depending on what's on the ground? I don't oppose the change in principle, but we need to be clear what you intend for all