Actually both highway=crossing and railway=crossing mark a place where you can meet different type of traffic (pedestrian-car, car-train, pedestrian-train...) LM_1
2012/1/20 Martijn van Exel <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
