[Tagging] railway crossings with cycleways

[Warin]

On 05/10/19 09:58, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:58 AM Martin Koppenhoefer 
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     The wiki defines railway=level_crossing as a crossing of rails and
>     a road, while railway=crossing is for a pedestrian crossing of
>     railway tracks. What about cycleways?
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>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Arailway%3Dlevel_crossing
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>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dcrossing
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> I'm strongly inclined to consider a cycleway a road, not a footway.

I think the majority of legal entities consider a bicycle a legal 
vehicle so it may make sense to use the same crossing type as for other 
vehicles.

Having said that .. I don't think there would be many bicycle specific 
crossings?
Most would be at the same place as other vehicles cross so that they 
would use the same infrastructure.
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