[Talk-us] Railway spur
Alex Mauer
hawke at hawkesnest.net
Fri Nov 7 18:13:58 GMT 2008
Joseph Scanlan wrote:
> The airport runways, taxiways, and aprons now show on the slippy map but
> the railways are missing. I admit I fall firmly in the "don't tag for
> the renderer" camp but I did get curious and checked the wiki. Sure
> enough, I found "railway=rail" and "service=spur" but no "railway=spur".
> I suspect this is an artifact of the TIGER conversion but wanted to
> check on this list before I started changing "railway=spur" tags when I
> occasionally come across them.
That's exactly correct. TIGER had the distinction between spur and
non-spur railways before service=spur was created. So at the time it
was unclear how it would be handled. They should be changed as you
described. But be cautious, TIGER's classification of railway is very
inaccurate. There are many routes which are marked as spur which
shouldn't be, and many which are marked as abandoned which shouldn't be.
-Alex Mauer "hawke"
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