[OSM-talk] [tagging] RFC: railway=incline

[Andy Allan]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> Andy Allan wrote:
>  > Gah. All the namespacing appears to be there to raise the barrier to
>  > entry, rather than solving any real problem. Once again, I will say
>  > that it is unnecessarily complicated. If I find a traction=something I
>  > will know that you are talking about railway traction because it is on
>  > a railway=something object.
>
>  Clearly, there's  no way that a traction key could ever be applied to
>  something that shares a way with a railway.  That's not a real problem,
>  just something imaginary.

I see you've changed it from railway:incline:traction= to
railway:traction= - but I still don't understand the need for the
railway: prefix. Am I missing something obvious? What's wrong with
just traction= ?

Cheers,
Andy