<div dir="ltr">Steve,<br>If you are finding PCIX those are the call letters for the railroad that is the owner, they may also be the operator. <br><br>Now here is the tricky bit, I will use the example of a local short line railroad. <br><br>This railroad the property is owned by the county and the port; one railroad (GNPX) has the operating rights who then contracts with a second company that is a railroad (BDTL) yet the line in which they are running is known as another railroad (ESFR). <br><br>If any of you can sort this out into the proper categories I think it will help a few many people. <br><br>If I had to sort out the problem in the past email I would say that it is probably laid out as such: Join Powers Board is the landowner CalTrain is the owner, operator, and UP has operational rights to the corridor. <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best Regards,<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nathan P</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:13 PM, stevea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com" target="_blank">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:35 PM, stevea wrote:<br>
> Yes, I'll use owner= if known, and it is name= which displays in ORM as the name of the line. Many lines had name= as the service run upon them (like Caltrain instead of Union Pacific), and I have corrected this where I know it was wrong in OSM. But I haven't corrected all of these, just the ones I know. And now I think I'll have to go back and correct name=Union Pacific as the name of Union Pacific's subdivision for the line that Caltrain is run upon: Caltrain itself should be a relation. And so on.<br>
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I was under the very strong impression that the main line from San Jose to San Francisco is owned by the Joint Powers Board (CalTrain) and not by Union Pacific. I believe that there are branches off that owned by Union Pacific and maybe even BNSF but that the main right of way was actually Caltrain's. Any place one could confirm or deny that?<br>
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Let's suppose Joint Powers Board is the owner. Does that mean that owner=Joint Powers Board, operator=Caltrain (and a route relation for Caltrain's services: Baby Bullet and Local) is correct? What do we put into the name= tag? A subdivision name? Perhaps "Joint Powers Board" (as well as, or instead of the owner tag)?<br>
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As I look in the (excellent) "CPUC_Rail_Crossing_List_<u></u>v20140603.xls" document recently pointed to, I find no occurrence of "Joint Powers Board" in the whole sheet. Though, I do recognize it as a real entity that administers the Caltrain service (and it may own the track, too). I do find "PCIX: Caltrain" in the Rail System column, though, so that is a good indication we might put PCIX, Caltrain, or PCIX:Caltrain in the name= tag.<br>
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It seems we are still a little unclear on how to (fully, "properly") tag rail in the USA, with California trying to be a leader in OSM (again), but at least this discussion seems to be getting us closer. Good!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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