[OSM-talk] [tagging] spur railways?

[Robin Paulson]

2008/5/6 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>:
> I notice that 'railway=spur' is used a lot in the tiger data. Here is an
> example (where the railway continues north out of Davis as a 'spur').
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.57568&lon=-121.74505&zoom=16
>
>
> However it doesn't render in Mapnik or Osmarender and is only a proposed
> tag. Voting is open at it was approved by a number of people in Feb 08 (with
> a few criticisms as well):
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Service)
>
> Can we get this agreed and into the rendering soon.

ok, this is a proposal i worked on ages back, i should really finish
it off one way or the other

voting has been extended for two weeks until 2008-05-21

at the moment there are 10 yes votes, 2 no votes and one that can be
ignored as it doesn't appear to relate to railway tracks at all

of the two no votes, i suspect one (Hawke/Alex Mauer) is an objection
based on 'namespacing'. as this still has not been widely accepted,
would you consider changing your vote to a yes, alex?
alastairj - the terminology has been discussed above the vote, and i
think fairly well settled on. yes, there are discrepancies between
what us and uk people call the items, but as long as it's well
documented, there's no problem

alternatively, could some more of you vote, please?

thanks

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