<div dir="ltr"><div>Volker, sorry for the double response, forgot to replay-all so this would go back to the list.</div><div><br></div><div>
<div>Ways.</div><div><br></div><div>The original use of Reporting Marks
in NA is for rolling stock identification, yes. However, it's also the
only common, reliable, and consistent short form abbreviation for
operators. It's widely used that way in both the railroad industry here
and among the industry-connected portions of the public. So, not an
official defined use of the mark, but so common in use that it is
effectively industry standard here. For example, the FRA, the official
US government agency in control of railway regulations, exclusively uses
the reporting marks (and not full operator name) for identification of
ways and routes in their GIS database (<a href="https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/" target="_blank">https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/</a>
which is OSM-compatible and already being used as a reference in the
US). Hence, we have an official and authoritative source for which
reporting mark is "primary" for each company, and most appropriate to
use - and it's already used as the operator identification in the
government map.<br></div><div><br></div><div>All larger railroads do own
(and often use) multiple different reporting marks for their equipment,
but all also have a single, best known, "primary" reporting mark by
which it will be commonly known, so this proposal is effective even for
lines with multiple registered marks (especially with the help of the
FRA map to clarify any inconsistencies).</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chuck <br></div></font>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:35 AM Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Question on the term "reporting_mark"</div><div>Wikipedia defines "<a>reporting_mark</a>" as "code
used to identify owners or lessees of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_stock" title="Rolling stock" target="_blank">rolling stock</a> and other equipment" and describes such codes alo in other parts of the world.</div><div>In your discussion you seem to refer to railway lines or routes and not to rolling stock.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What kind objects in OSM will carry the tag reporting_mark=* ?</div><div><br></div><div>Volker</div><div>(Italy)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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