The level crossings sound pretty straight forward. The exception being the single ID applying to all crossings on private property. Many of those may still only be a single crossing though.<br><br>Grade separated sounds like it requires a judgment call. Just place a node with only the ref# where the ways cross? Make it a crossing (I don't like this) Tag the overpass or tunnel (or this)? As those are not crossings in any sense that we care about, I say just a ref number in a node only on the train track way and forgo any railway tag. The main use for us might be to make sure there is an overpass or tunnel there.<br>
<br>Dale<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<div class="im"><br>
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On 02.10.2012 22:29, Charlie Smothers wrote:<br>
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How do folks think<br>
that this should be tagged? Just use a railway=level_crossing, ref= on a<br>
node near the crossing?<br>
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railway=level_crossing would usually be reserved to tag the crossing itself, not to annotate it from a distance.<div class="im"><br>
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Should it have a special tag so that it is clear<br>
that it is in fact a USDOT ID number?<br>
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People sometimes use tags like "namespace:ref" to indicate whose number it is, so that would make "usdot:ref=...". (A "fdot:ref" seems to be in common use on Florida highways.)<div class="im">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Tag the node at the intersection<br>
of the highway and the railway?<br>
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Yes - of course if it really is a level crossing and not grade separated. Grade separated is more difficult because there will not necessarily be a node at the precise intersection.<br>
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Bye<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Frederik<br>
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