[Tagging] Railways along streets

[François Lacombe]

I would definetly map it with 2 distinct ways.
They can both share the same nodes, or map the road as two "oneway"
highways with the railway between both directions

All the best

François

*François Lacombe*

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2018-04-11 0:48 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:

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>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 17:30 Albert Pundt <roadsguy99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to map a railway along a street, and how are the
>> street intersections to be mapped? For example, this street
>> <https://goo.gl/maps/XPCxsRkDZr22> in Lewistown, PA has a freight line
>> running along the middle. Should it be mapped as two overlapping ways, as
>> that example is currently, or should they be drawn as one way with all the
>> highway and railway tags on it?
>>
>
> The highway centerline at the mean location of the middle of the road, per
> usual, and the tracks mapped between the rails per usual.
>
>>
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