train:lanes=* might be a tag worth inventing for the highway way, giving it more thought.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Luca Sigfrido Percich < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > many thanks for all your feedback! It will take me a week to sort it all > out! :) > > In Milano we already have (nearly) all the tram traks drawn as distinct > ways, so switching back to the "single way for highway and railway" model > wouldn't be a good option - it would mean losing detail. > > I understand that drawing the road as a precise centerline and giving it > correct width tags has a value of its own and would allow us to dynamically > establish the relationship between roads and railway, not to mention a > better rendering and modeling. > > But for the sake of "explicit is better than implicit" I still have the > impression that we should also use a tag or two for saying that there is a > tram track in a road. > > Sig > > > > > > > 2015-02-08 23:18 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić <[email protected]>: > >> 2015-02-08 19:57 GMT+01:00 Jo <[email protected]>: >> >>> I don't like to reuse the same ways for both railway and highway. The >>> shape of the railways follow smooth curves for obvious reasons, whereas >>> cars can make 90 degree turns. So I'll always keep using separate ways for >>> the tram rails. One for each direction of travel. And a way in the middle >>> (on the straight parts) for the highway. An exception to that are dual >>> carriageways, with the rails embedded, but usually the rails are between >>> the carriageways in that case. >>> >> >> I agree, railway=tram should be separate. Tags on the highway only >> describe lanes, they do not represent the railway. Tag >> tram:lanes:forward=no|designated only says that the outer lane has a >> railway track on it. >> >> Janko Mihelić >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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