Alex Mauer wrote: >Sent: 25 March 2008 9:16 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] railway=incline? > >Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: >>> 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. > >Hmm, I think that's more "absolutely wrong". A funicular >(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular ) is apparently by definition >cable driven, and *not* using the rack-and-pinion, self-powered method. >The latter would be a "rack railway" or "cog railway". >(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway )
I clearly got it wrong, apologies for that. So the question is whether to group them under a single definition or to split between funicular an rack/cog. I'm sure there will be those that will want to label them precisely if they come across them, after all they are quite unique. > >"incline railway" seems to me to cover both systems, as well as some >others, adequately (hence my suggestion of such for the TIGER migration, >as there was and still is no "official" way to tag such railways.) Was certainly logical for TIGER, especially if there was no other data at the time. Cheers Andy > >-Alex Mauer "hawke" > > >_______________________________________________ >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
