[Tagging] railway=abandoned + highway=cycleway (was: [OSM-talk-be] Abandoned Railways / cycleways)

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:34:13 -0700


From OSM-talk-be, with best regards.  I put the questions before the replies ;-)
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, André Pirard <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2013-04-13 23:02, Marc Gemis wrote :
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So why two lines for an abandoned railway and the cycleway/footway on it ? Can't they be combined ?
What to do is explained in the OSM wiki at ... Railways
Abandoned - The track has been removed and the line may have been reused or left to decay but is still clearly visible, either from the replacement infrastructure, or purely from a line of trees around an original cutting or embankment. Use railway=abandoned. Where it has been reused as a cycle path then add highway=cycleway. Consider adding a end_date=* tag or more specifically a railway:end_date=* tag.
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote:
This means that the separate track should be removed for the 3 cases I listed, or not ?
On 2013-04-14 23:11, Ben Laenen wrote :
No, highway and cycleway should not share any ways. The only thing which may be acceptable is reusing the same nodes for two different ways, but only if they are on exactly the same location, which is actually quite rare. In quite a lot of cases there will be an offset, or it will diverge a little bit from the original railway track.

Ben

IMVHO, there is no railway if there are no rails, just a cycleway, just one way.
And the intention may be to add information that there was a railway there, the genesis.
How then explain the wiki rules: "railway=abandoned" and "add highway=cycleway to railway=abandoned" instead of "add ...???... to highway=cycleway"?

Obviously questions for Tagging@OSM which I cc:.

Cheers,

André. 


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