[Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

[Tristan Anderson]

Where a tram line shares a right-of-way with the street, that is, where I can drive my car down the tracks, no crossing tag is necessary as the whole street is one big level crossing.  Where it's separate, railway=level_crossing should be used.  There is no need to specify a tram crossing as this is implied by the way the highway is crossing.


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From: Mike N <niceman at att.net>
Sent: April 4, 2017 5:03 PM
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] railway=level_crossing with in-street trams?

On 4/4/2017 4:42 PM, Jo wrote:
> Any suggestions for a tag? Or leave those crossings untagged? It's quite
> obvious from the geometry there is a crossing and quite logical that
> it's level.

   It would be convenient for data consumers to have the crossing
explicitly tagged without having to examine the crossing street to find
the correct rule.

   The first thing that comes to mind is railway=tram_crossing, but
there's the fuzziness that comes with light_rail.

   Another solution is to add a modifier railway:crossing=tram  since
it's not level and to avoid conflict with crossing=* or railway=crossing



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