IMO it's better to add something clear than to shoehorn something into a
generic tag. Especially if you end up with compound values. OK so they
could be parsed, but it's just making work (both processing and
maintaining). Better to have something unambiguous like national_rail=yes
and
AJ Ashton wrote:
We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground and
National Rail icons is a particularly strong sticking point with
people who would otherwise happily switch to OSM, which is
partly why we chose to focus on it.
Absolutely. It does look really good. :)
I guess
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Or indeed we could just go with network=National Rail as a good
enough solution.
My issue with National Rail was that, to me, (as I explained to the
Peruvian chap who's edited Mansfield Woodhouse station):
National Rail means these people:
AJ Ashton wrote:
.. and apparently we messed up.
...
AJ @ MapBox
Sorry, but who's we here? Is it a bunch of people at some other
mailing list/forum, or who work for Mapbox, or something else?
Last night I spotted changes from someone (I think*) from Peru, and (I
think) from the US -
National Rail is what ATOC came up with to describe things that are
represented by the double-arrow symbol, and which would formerly have been
referred to as British Rail or informally as the rail network. (The staff
refer to it as the railway, but that's another subject)
National Rail isn't a
On 16/05/12 04:35, AJ Ashton wrote:
Hi Richard everyone,
This started off simply as an effort to improve our display London
Underground stations using existing OSM data, but was scope-creeped
into much more and apparently we messed up.
We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground
Thanks for the explanations of the complicated 'network' situation.
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
It may lend itself to an ncn/rcn/lcn or nwn/rwn/lwn solution, ...
I'm tempted to suggest a generic tag for any country's national railway system
(mainline=yes|no or somesuch), and then you could
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to
station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and
using Wikipedia as a source.
I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert
is running!). If the users would like to discuss the
I wrote:
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk
changes to station nodes in the UK
Someone else (not SomeoneElse... hell this is confusing) has pointed me,
off-list, to this:
http://mapbox.com/blog/improved-british-rail-icons/
which obviously looks cool. I guess this is
On 15/05/2012 20:16, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
SomeoneElse on IRC noticed a big heap of debatable bulk changes to
station nodes in the UK, seemingly made by people outside the UK and
using Wikipedia as a source.
I've reverted these (well, actually, at the time of writing the revert
is running!).
Hi Richard everyone,
This started off simply as an effort to improve our display London
Underground stations using existing OSM data, but was scope-creeped
into much more and apparently we messed up.
We've found that the lack of familiar London Underground and National
Rail icons is a
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