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

[Ben Robbins]

>I mainly disagree :)

>The one point I agree on is the highway / railway = viaduct.  Since bridges 
>/ tunnels / cuttings and embankments are covered by the tagging structure 
>bridge = yes , tunnel = yes , cutting = yes , embankment = yes, it would 
>seem logical to have a tag viaduct = yes.

This switching of value to key is illogical I think.  Using this method it 
may as well be like that for everything.  Motoway=yes, residential=yes 
JOSM=yes.

>gates & cattle grids are applied no nodes and not ways, so don't seem to 
>come into the matter.

I don't wish to be repetative, but gates and cattlegrids take up an area, so 
nodes is incorrect.

>As I understand it railway = narrow_gauge would be used on an functioning 
>railway, so you only need the railway=abandoned

The railway was a narrow_gauge.  Therefore it should be 'allowed' to be 
tagged as what it was if someone wants to.  An abandoned monorail is 
differnet to an abanoned railway.

Ben

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