Peter Hicks wrote: > I'm part of a group of people who are working to get a richer > set of metadata attached to the railway network in Great > Britain, specifically: > [...]
This is a terrific idea. I've long thought that OSM would be a natural home for a sort of "Open Quail" and am delighted to see it happening. One comment: > I've started using three tags - ref:crs_code, ref:stanox and > ref:tiploc for locations, and ref:nr_route_code for route codes - > they're attached to St Albans Abbey station and stations toward > Watford Junction as an example. A few principles of OSM tagging: * KISS * Reusable is good * Memorable is good So ref:timing_point would be more reusable than ref:tiploc, given that (I presume) other railways have timing points. But better still: keep it _really_ simple. ref:crs_code should just be ref on stations (and I believe this is already standard practice). ref:nr_route_code should just be ref on lines. By analogy, we don't tag roads with ref:dft_classified_road_network_code. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Tagging-GB-railway-stations-and-track-tp5734638p5735100.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
