Yes, exactly. In Denver, Colorado there are numerous train lines that use the same rails. It seems like a lot of work to name all the member railway tracks, name=C-Line;E-Line;W-Line.
It seems the rail itself should have no name because the name will be on the relations assigned to the track. I think naming the same thing two times is not a best practice? -----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> >Sent: May 28, 2020 2:20 PM >To: Jack Armstrong <dan...@sprynet.com>, "Tag discussion, strategy and related >tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >Subject: Re: [Tagging] line=* tag on railway lines > >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
