Good question. I just noticed that the other day while using the presets window. I'd say deprecate one of them. I'd be inclined to deprecate level_crossing because crossing is nice and terse. But level_crossing is used more (143k vs 22k for railway=crossing) and railway=crossing causes confusion with highway=crossing which is a different thing.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the wiki, railway=crossing is "a point where pedestrians may > cross a railway", while railway=level_crossing is "where a road crosses a > railway". But footways are also represented by highways, and so if one wants > to know where pedestrians may cross a railway they can simply look at the > tags on the intersecting way. So why do we have two separate tags for what > is essentially the same thing (there are road crossings without gates and > foot crossings with gates)? > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
