[Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

[Eric Christensen]

On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:43:50 AM Greg Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>
> 
> wrote:
> >  Matijn,
> >  
> >         By the way, what is the difference between "crossing" and
> > 
> > "level_crossing"?
> 
> I treat highway=crossing the same as railway=crossing.  That would be a
> place where a horse, bike, skateboard, foot path, etc. would cross the
> railway.  I also apply all the related highway=crossing tags to the
> railway=crossing nodes.  I've used this mostly around light rail crossings.

I think highway=crossing is for pedestrian crossing on a highway, not a 
railroad.  The wiki[0] specifically calls this out.

railway=crossing is for pedestrian crossing of a railway[1] and 
railway=level_crossing is where a highway crosses a railway[2].

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcrossing
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dcrossing
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dlevel_crossing

--Eric