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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 9, 2022, 21:52 by natfoot@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2.<br></div><div>additionally railway=rail is a description of the rail and not a<br></div><div>description of the use and does bind with this assertion of the use of<br></div><div>a line for construction.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My point of view is if the rail is or looks to be "active" it is to be<br></div><div>labeled rail just like the wiki describes no matter the use or the<br></div><div>official announcement. Even if the line is not yet taking passengers<br></div><div>or moving cargo.<br></div><div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Drail<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">No, that is <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Ddisused">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Ddisused</a><br></div><div dir="auto">And "is it used at all" is on the ground situation.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>By labeling it this way we state with the map data the correct<br></div><div>attributes of the rail on the ground. If the description of<br></div><div>railway=rail are not ture and are about the use of the rail line then<br></div><div>this will need to change.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">ture? (sorry, I sometimes make typos but here I am confused by<br></div><div dir="auto">meaning)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>railway=construction is a use of the line if it is already intact<br></div><div>passable or in testing. we could in turn add service=construction for<br></div><div>the use of the line until officially active for whatever the<br></div><div>officially announced use is.<br></div><div>Additionally a life cycle prefix which is beyond construction for<br></div><div>places like this where a rail line is intact and passible but is not<br></div><div>active for service to the public as of yet could also resolve this<br></div><div>issue.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Note that railway tagging is not using prefixes for disused/under construction<br></div><div dir="auto">ones.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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