[Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

[stevea]

I point out for those who might not know this:  rail tagging, despite excellent efforts by the ORM folks (largely in Germany, I understand) to encourage OSM to follow global tagging conventions for ORM, have already quite seriously fractured (necessarily) into country-specific tagging standards.  (Or in the case of North America, three-country-specific, as while there are differences in these three countries, they are relatively minor and do share a lot of commonality, quite intentionally, because of the large amount of interchange traffic between them).  This country-specificity is in both our tagging and in our wiki, and again, quite extensively.

SteveA