On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:20 AM, John Sturdy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David ``Smith'' <[email protected]> wrote: >> My employer is a contractor for a few railroads, and through that experience >> I have gained personal knowlege of several named "control points" for one >> railroad in particular. A control point typically consists of signals >> facing both ways, switch tracks to transfer between multiple mainline tracks >> if applicable, and often signs displaying the name of the control point. >> While the extents of a control point are not sharply defined (as far as I >> know) they can be roughly described as a few hundred feet long and as wide >> as the railroad right-of-way in most cases. >> >> How should such a feature appear in OSM? A single node? An area-way around >> the associated physical features? A relation with several nodes as members? >> And what tags are appropriate? Does this count as a new feature I should >> propose? > > I think a relation is probably better for this than an area. Further > details would depend on whether the railway has been traced as > separate ways for each track, or as one way with a track count. > > I think it's worth documenting as a feature type.
If there is some feature along a railroad that is mappable, chances are it has been covered somewhere on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:OpenRailwayMap/Erweitertes_Tagging Unfortunately all the descriptions are in German and the page is huge so good luck finding it :) Toby _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
