[OSM-talk] Area Support /Osmarender

[Collinson Mike]

At 09:31 PM 17/09/2006, Frédéric Bonifas wrote:
>2006/9/17, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com>:
> > What about a level crossing (where a road crosses a railway)?
> >
> > Should there be a node there (tagged highway=crossing) or should the lines
> > just cross without a node?  A car cannot "change roads" at this point onto
> > the railway, nor can a train get onto the road, but it seems sensible to me
> > that there should be a node here that is both part of the railway and part
> > of the highway.
> >
> > Etienne
>
>That was what I tried to ask here :
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Level_crossing
>But nobody reacted...
>
>FredB

I say they should definitely be connected.  You 
*could* drive your car, walk, cycle onto the 
railway track unless its one of those old-style 
UK swing gates, whether you'd want to or whether 
the law allows it is another matter.  Railway 
workers can also access the road. It is the same 
as a junction with a one-way road end.  The 
connection is topological both in 2-D and 3-D space.

Mike
Oz