Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: >Sent: 25 March 2008 4:21 PM >To: Sven Geggus; Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] railway=incline? > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Sven Geggus wrote: >| Hello, >| >| I just want to ask whats the State of "railway=incline"? >| >| While it does not apear on map-features ist seems to be in use, as it >can be >| found on the "TIGER to OSM Attribute Map". > >What does it mean? Is that like a funicular railway? >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Funicular_railway > >I'd prefer railway=funicular than railway=incline. Incline sounds like >it's just a railway on a slope.
Absolutely right. There are still some rail inclines where wagons are winched rather than under their own steam but on the whole nowadays the power is on-board and some form of rack and pinion is in use. Cheers Andy > >Robert (Jamie) Munro >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iD8DBQFH6SZcz+aYVHdncI0RAne6AJ0bHmoDOWrSgFm6LXneZhkik2fTpgCeMSsl >F0pTnNqoOsx09BMFycxnpY0= >=r1Nx >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
