[Talk-ca] CanVec Railway tagging

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 21:38 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Thanks,
> I made the changes,
> im using the tag "operator=*" and using the star as a 'fixme', so map
> users would fill it in with the company name that owns the rail.
> I don't use the word 'fixme' because its not manditory & its more
> important to tag the name.

Is operator not provided in the data?  I prefer not adding the operator
tag at all, if we can't fill it correctly.  Here is my reasoning.  It
will take manual intervention anyway to add operator.  noname layer
already finds and highlights similar areas for attention, why not rely
on a nooperator layer, or trainspotters to fix it when inspired?  

> Re: snowshed
> i am entering it as 'tunnel', however i do think its worth getting a
> special icon for it. Or maybe 'shed' would be better? As that is used
> in railyards, but it could almost be classified as a building.
> -Needs further investigation before dismissing. IMO

I prefer snowshed=yes.  It follows the OSM practice of tunnel/bridge=yes
but maintains the important distinction that it is a snowshed.  We can
get the renderers to catch up and approve the snowshed tag later.  

Best regards,
Richard