[OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

[John Smith]

On 23 May 2010 02:07, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Railways
>
> freight lines. Let me know what you guys think.

If you want to specify width, use the width=* tag, guage is a subset
of width but was defined in various countries to mean different things
so to prevent confusion I'd avoid it.

Also even where there is multiple lines running parallel in Sydney
these have all been mapped out including short sections of switch
track etc, but that's due to hi-res sat imagery and some people avid
about their railway tracks, Mike even put in a suggestion with some
train game that they could use the information from Sydney and other
places mapped in high detail as the layout for the tracks :)

There is also railway=crossing for pedestrian crossings.

Instead of rail:use=heritage these are usually tagged as
railway=preserved, as for the other use tags, I can't comment on
India, but in Australia the railways are time shared between different
purposes.

Also are you confusing abandoned with disused, abandoned means it has
been torn down or ripped out and there is no longer any physical
presence of whatever you are tagging, disused means it's been left to
rot.