<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3598">Nobody else voted, so ref=L25. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3599">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.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_13583">And I've added railway=preserved for railbikes and touristic trains.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_13755">Other comments always welcome.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_13657"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_13682">StijnRR<br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3552"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3510" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3509"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3508"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3507"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3551" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3597" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ben Laenen <benlaenen@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk-be@openstreetmap.org; Stijn Rombauts <stijnrombauts@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 20, 2018 6:59 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk-be] railways and stations<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3570"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517146311946_3571">Your message was directly sent to my spam box for some reason...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:27:39 CET Stijn Rombauts wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I am rewriting the conventions page about railways [1]. It was a bit<br clear="none">> outdated...A few questions:- I kept the convention about the name ("L"<br clear="none">> followed by the number of the line, e.g. L25). But I noticed it hasn't been<br clear="none">> followed in many places (often 25 or L.25).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That's a small issue, our railways don't use the same convention everywhere, <br clear="none">and you can find both L.25 and L25. When I started redrawing the railways in <br clear="none">Belgium I ended up using L.25, whereas I've now started to think that ref=L25 <br clear="none">is the better option, and would fit in more with the other refs being used on <br clear="none">junctions etc.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We just need to decide on one and keep using that. I'd now vote on L25.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Do we keep this convention or<br clear="none">> not? The HSL/LGV lines have been given other names like "Ligne Nouvelle 1"<br clear="none">> or "LGV 3 - HSL 3". What do we do these?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The names shouldn't really be there, but I guess they don't do much harm. <br clear="none">Their refs are ref=L.1 or L1 etc, no HSL or LGV in ref numbers.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - The relations usually have a<br clear="none">> ref=L.25. (with the point). Still OK?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Same answer as above.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Some switches/junctions have a name<br clear="none">> (e.g. Y Val-Benoit) and are tagged as railway=junction. But this page [2]<br clear="none">> seems to suggest that railway=switch is a better tag. Or do we keep the<br clear="none">> railway=junction tag for named switches/junctions?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">railway=junction is for a single node somewhere near the area where one or <br clear="none">more switches are located. Their name should be something like <br clear="none">name=Y.Abeelstraat (with a dot there), their reference is for example <br clear="none">ref=YABLS without a dot.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">railway=switch is for one single switch, they've got no names, only a <br clear="none">reference, like ref=05AM.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Railway stations: I<br clear="none">> guess we're supposed to follow the rules/guidelines in this page [3]? Or do<br clear="none">> we have other opinions? E.g. in Visé [4] the tag railway=station has been<br clear="none">> used 3 times...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There should only be a single node tagged as railway=station.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Do we keep the distinction between railway=station and<br clear="none">> railway=halt. As more and more stations (=buildings) are closed, it seems<br clear="none">> to me that the distinction between the two has become quite vague.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are a lot of definitions going around. In the railway definition a <br clear="none">station would need a switch and allow a train to depart from. That would make <br clear="none">Brussels-Central not a station... But in the end it's just better to tag them <br clear="none">all railway=station.<div class="yqt6912581202" id="yqtfd68489"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ben<br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>