[Tagging] railway=rail vs. railway=subway
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 20:17:56 UTC 2016
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> > and the way magically transforms to railway=subway at the tunnel portal?
>
> This is the real difficulty. One approach is to tag the 3 parts
> separately, and the other is to say that if individual trains run end to
> end, then there should be consistent tagging.
>
If a Route relation is going to go end to end, I'd think consistency would
be nice.
>
> So I would lean to railway=light_rail for the entire line, splitting the
> difference on both sides with subway and tram.
>
> Or, it could be reasonable to tag as subway/light_rail/tram as it
> changes. These changing points are obvious on the ground (first grade
> crossing, and end of fences to keep cars off tracks).
I'm trying to remember if it's still using catenary power in the tunnel
as it did in the old days (during initial transition from trolley to
pantograph), or if the GL tunnels now have 3rd rail.
--
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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