On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:56 PM Jack Armstrong <jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote: > I have wondered for a long time... > > If the rail is tagged name=* but the railway also has a relation with the > same name, isn't this naming something twice? it seems to me the relation is > sufficient and the rail itself should not be named?
There are cases where there is a whole hierarchy going on, which may involve superrelations and the like: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Metro-North Railroad Harlem Division Wassaic Branch So it may be the case that there's a part with one name while the whole has another. The rail-mappers seem to prefer assigning 'line' and 'branch' values since that hierarchy is common in their world. But hierarchical names are sometimes unavoidable. Thinking of my local bicycle infrastructure, there's a small segment of (highway=residential) Island View Road that's also routing around an interruption in a rail-trail (the railbed was destroyed by construction of a freeway). It's simultaneously 'Island View Road', the 'Mohawk & Hudson Bike-Hike Trail (lcn)', the 'Erie Canalway (rcn)' and the 'Empire State Trail (also rcn)' depending on where you are in the hierarchy. It's signed for all of them. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
