Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread Natfoot
Sorry I saw your email in the ORM list and responded directly. I find line segment numbers on track charts and timetables. I mostly work with lines that have left BNSF or its predecessors so I have line segments that were assigned by those railroads. Here is a great list of line segments of the

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread stevea
It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation! I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads. (And we still have a ways to go there). SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread Chuck Sanders
I'd love any information you can send regarding any sort of route number in use here like you're discussing. I've worked around the US rail industry for several decades (federal bridge engineer), and have never heard of such a thing, so I'm very curious. You're not talking about the FRAARCID in

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread Natfoot
Chuck, Thank You for your time fixing the reporting marks section. Railroad Line numbers do exist for railroads in the United States and Canada. Ref= is for the use of line numbers. I can send you links to line numbers. Line numbers were given to a line by the railroad when it was laid and

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread Chuck Sanders
In the interim this week, I got the wiki page up for tag:reporting_marks, and started using the tag in my area as a bit of a test - we had the thought that if there proved to be a better tag to hold this info, since this is a "novel" tag, it'd be easy to query out places we'd used it and just