[OSM-talk] The Return of the Highway tags and other junk

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:08:04AM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > highway=footway
> > foot=permisive
> > tracktype=grade4
> > railway=narrow_gaugue
> > abandoned=yes (<I’m unshore of this as its not specific to what it
> > references)
> > border*=cattlegride
> > border*=gate
> > feature=viaduct
> 
> This is probably along the lines of what I would do.
> I have come across one viaduct like this in the course of my mapping and 
> admittedly I only focused on its footway properties, tagging it:
> 
> highway=footway; foot=permissive; name=Hockley Viaduct.
> 
> On reflection adding railway=abandoned would also be good. The viaduct 
> property would have to go elsewhere, somehow.

I can't remember if this is in Proposed_Features, or was on the mailing list or
IRC, but I seem to remember proposing

  bridge=viaduct

which solves the this problem nicely (and that is the only problem I see from
the above).

As for my tags for the above

  highway=track
  foot=permissive
  bridge=viaduct
  railway=abandoned

and on certain nodes

  highway=gate
or
  highway=cattle_grid

railway=narrow_gauge is not needed if railway=abandoned is present - the tracks
have been removed (it would be a problem with railway=preserved, so should
probably be railway_gauge=narrow, but that is not the case here.)

-- 
Matthew