[talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

David Murn davey at incanberra.com.au
Mon Mar 22 22:06:27 GMT 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:52 +1000, John Smith wrote:
> On 22 March 2010 18:48, James Andrewartha <trs80 at student.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > On 22 March 2010 15:38, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.44227&lon=153.03687&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
> >>
> >> Not sure why someone tagged all the railway lines like that...
> >
> > Like what, exactly? The tagging looks perfectly cromulent to me.
> 
> So it's ok to name railway lines road 1 to road 40 ?

According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service yes it is
ok.

>> Yard
>> for tracks within railway company operated (as opposed to separate
>> companies, see 'spur' for this) marshalling yards
>>
>> key=service value=yard
>> key=ref value=<index number of the track>
>> 
>> Some yards have visible index numbers/letters to allow workers to
>> easily identify lines (some yards have dozens of parallel lines, very
>> close together. making this indexing important)

So, basically yes, identifying each line is appropriate, as long as
theyre tagged properly and accurately.

David





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