[OSM-talk] railway=incline?

[Alex Mauer]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> I think I know only 1 rack system - Snowdon mountain railway in Wales, 
> but I've come across several funicular systems on holidays round Europe.
There is a list of rack railways at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway#List_of_cog_and_rack_railways

> IMHO we should use railway=funicular and railway=rack. We can allow 
> railway=incline, but prefer the more specific one.
I agree that we should prefer that people tag as specifically as 
possible, but I think the more specific tagging belongs in a separate key.
>> "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.)
> Does the Tiger data make a distinction?
No.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"