[OSM-talk] railway=incline?

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Alex Mauer wrote:
>Sent: 25 March 2008 9:16 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] railway=incline?
>
>Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote:
>>> What does it mean? Is that like a funicular railway?
>>>
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Funicular_railway
>>>
>>> I'd prefer railway=funicular than railway=incline. Incline sounds like
>>> it's just a railway on a slope.
>>
>> Absolutely right. There are still some rail inclines where wagons are
>> winched rather than under their own steam but on the whole nowadays the
>> power is on-board and some form of rack and pinion is in use.
>
>Hmm, I think that's more "absolutely wrong".  A funicular
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular ) is apparently by definition
>cable driven, and *not* using the rack-and-pinion, self-powered method.
>The latter would be a "rack railway" or "cog railway".
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway )

I clearly got it wrong, apologies for that. So the question is whether to
group them under a single definition or to split between funicular an
rack/cog.

I'm sure there will be those that will want to label them precisely if they
come across them, after all they are quite unique.

>
>"incline railway" seems to me to cover both systems, as well as some
>others, adequately (hence my suggestion of such for the TIGER migration,
>as there was and still is no "official" way to tag such railways.)

Was certainly logical for TIGER, especially if there was no other data at
the time.

Cheers

Andy

>
>-Alex Mauer "hawke"
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