I don't think the community is very active around railways.
However, there are some guidelines about repurposed railways (it is
railway=abandoned, see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways#Life-cycle).
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Pieter Vander Vennet
2018-01-28 15:07 GMT+01:00 Stijn Rombauts <stijnromba...@yahoo.com>:
> Nobody else voted, so ref=L25.
> Junctions: I've come across many places where the switches were tagged as
> junctions. I've added a few words about junctions in the conventions page.
> And I've added railway=preserved for railbikes and touristic trains.
> Other comments always welcome.
>
> StijnRR
>
>
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> *From:* Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com>
> *To:* talk-be@openstreetmap.org; Stijn Rombauts <stijnromba...@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 20, 2018 6:59 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk-be] railways and stations
>
> Your message was directly sent to my spam box for some reason...
>
> On Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:27:39 CET Stijn Rombauts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am rewriting the conventions page about railways [1]. It was a bit
> > outdated...A few questions:- I kept the convention about the name ("L"
> > followed by the number of the line, e.g. L25). But I noticed it hasn't
> been
> > followed in many places (often 25 or L.25).
>
> That's a small issue, our railways don't use the same convention
> everywhere,
> and you can find both L.25 and L25. When I started redrawing the railways
> in
> Belgium I ended up using L.25, whereas I've now started to think that
> ref=L25
> is the better option, and would fit in more with the other refs being used
> on
> junctions etc.
>
> We just need to decide on one and keep using that. I'd now vote on L25.
>
> > Do we keep this convention or
> > not? The HSL/LGV lines have been given other names like "Ligne Nouvelle
> 1"
> > or "LGV 3 - HSL 3". What do we do these?
>
> The names shouldn't really be there, but I guess they don't do much harm.
> Their refs are ref=L.1 or L1 etc, no HSL or LGV in ref numbers.
>
> > - The relations usually have a
> > ref=L.25. (with the point). Still OK?
>
> Same answer as above.
>
> > - Some switches/junctions have a name
> > (e.g. Y Val-Benoit) and are tagged as railway=junction. But this page [2]
> > seems to suggest that railway=switch is a better tag. Or do we keep the
> > railway=junction tag for named switches/junctions?
>
> railway=junction is for a single node somewhere near the area where one or
> more switches are located. Their name should be something like
> name=Y.Abeelstraat (with a dot there), their reference is for example
> ref=YABLS without a dot.
>
> railway=switch is for one single switch, they've got no names, only a
> reference, like ref=05AM.
>
>
> > - Railway stations: I
> > guess we're supposed to follow the rules/guidelines in this page [3]? Or
> do
> > we have other opinions? E.g. in Visé [4] the tag railway=station has been
> > used 3 times...
>
> There should only be a single node tagged as railway=station.
>
>
> > - Do we keep the distinction between railway=station and
> > railway=halt. As more and more stations (=buildings) are closed, it seems
> > to me that the distinction between the two has become quite vague.
>
> There are a lot of definitions going around. In the railway definition a
> station would need a switch and allow a train to depart from. That would
> make
> Brussels-Central not a station... But in the end it's just better to tag
> them
> all railway=station.
>
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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