[Tagging] Fwd: Lifecycle of rail

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 10, 2022, 00:49 by steveaOSM at softworkers.com:

> This IS somewhat confusing.  To further the tenet we have that "definitive 'how-to-tag' guidelines be located at ONE sensible place in our wiki," 
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That is quite poor tenet and if executed we would end with massive super-large articles
like "Roads" which has several megabytes text about roads, requires months to read
and lags on any browser and images fail to load.

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> what I suggest we consider is that the entire section of
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:construction#Railways
> (with its pretty table and all)
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> be moved (with a notation there to "See..." or "Main article..." with a link to below) to
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways
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> as a newly titled section called "Construction" (between "Stations and stops" and "Life-cycle").
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having unmanageable large articles is not helpful for people trying to learn about tagging

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> Additionally, there is the issue of whether we need to or might also explicitly tag access=no on rail (we don't seem to need to do this for highways, and it is widely understood that railway right-of-way is closed to public access).  That can be addressed in the new (-ly moved) wiki section, if it needs to be.
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railways are access controlled by default, tagging access on them seems dubious
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