[Talk-us] Railway spur

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Fri Nov 7 21:58:26 GMT 2008


Russ Nelson wrote:
> Joseph Scanlan writes:
>  > enough, I found "railway=rail" and "service=spur" but no "railway=spur". 
> 
> Perhaps we should do an automated conversion of railway=spur into
> railway=rail+service=spur?  It would mean no editing in the case of an
> actual spur, and for anything else, it would mean changing only one
> tag rather than having to change one tag and add another.
> 
> I appreciate the that people want hand edits to be respected, but if
> railway=spur is never correct, even if somebody left it that way for a
> spur, changing it wouldn't hurt their edit.

Cue the complaints from the crowd who believes that map features should
document current usage, and that a tag can never be incorrect.

But seriously, that sounds great to me.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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