One could find two different schemes are used for this across the OSM: #1. The most popular way is to tag the nodes with railway=crossing (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dcrossing). There are currently *35151* nodes like this around the world https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MVO.
It looks quite logic: a tram is an instance of a railway (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:railway). If someone needs to give more specifics for such a crossing then some crossing=* tag probably is the best bet. #2. In certain areas we see the pedestrian crossings of tramways are tagged with railway=tram_crossing. There are currently *1241* nodes like this around the world https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MVQ. The #2 gives railway=tram + railway=tram_crossing which seems to be a needless repetition -- a tautology. It's easy to deduce that a crossing on the tramway track is a crossing of the tramway track, isn't it? A rather similar dilemma exists with the highway crossings of tramways and in a similar proportion: #1. railway=tram + railway=level_crossing #2. railway=tram + railway=tram_level_crossing The OSM wiki says "Any tags you like" https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like. But I think there is a problem when someone is meticulously removing on a large scale the scheme #1 in favour of the scheme #2, like in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/73460862. During the last couple of months two major cities in Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg were "converted" like this by a couple of editors. As far as I could see the tags railway=tram_crossing and railway=tram_level_crossing were never officially approved or discussed, perhaps it's time for the proponents of this scheme to come along with their reasoning. -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
