[Tagging] Proposing an amendment for an existing tag

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dieterdreist wrote
> can you please be more specific? It really depends on the kind of
> amendment
> which procedure seems appropriate (or at least isn't for sure).

At some urban locations one can find (https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Nls) that
every crossing of a railway=tram with any highway=* is tagged with
railway=level_crossing even if railway=tram is actually embedded into the
roadbed and there is no special marking or signage about it there.

On the other hand as per the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic
(https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_traffic_EN.pdf)
such a crossing counts as a "level crossing" only if a railway is separated
from the road:
> (i)  “Level-crossing”  means  any  level  intersection  between  a  road
>  and  a  railway  or  tramway track with its own track formation;

I think that's a rather important clarification which could help solving
some confusion about the matter which arises sometimes.




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