Re: [Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:16 AM, John Smith wrote: >> electrified=yes). I'm sure soon enough we'll have a major collision, >> so to speak... > > you mean like power=station/generator etc? No. From a technical standpoint, there's actually not a problem there, it's technically a massive scale user

Re: [Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 01:14, Steve Bennett wrote: > Yeah, that's the bit I found odd. I guess there are other examples of > a tag meaning two different things depending on what the "main" tag is > (eg, voltage=* can go with power=line, or railway=rail, > electrified=yes). I'm sure soon enough we'll have

Re: [Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Actually it's railway=rail service=*. Yeah, that's the bit I found odd. I guess there are other examples of a tag meaning two different things depending on what the "main" tag is (eg, voltage=* can go with power=line, or railway=rail, ele

Re: [Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:28 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 28 July 2010 17:25, Steve Bennett wrote: >> For some reason it completely escaped me that service=* is supposed to >> be used for both railways (eg, service=spur) and roads >> (service=alley). I don't really want to debate this situation wit

Re: [Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 July 2010 17:25, Steve Bennett wrote: > For some reason it completely escaped me that service=* is supposed to > be used for both railways (eg, service=spur) and roads > (service=alley). I don't really want to debate this situation with a > view to changing it, but could someone give me a qu

[Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Bennett
For some reason it completely escaped me that service=* is supposed to be used for both railways (eg, service=spur) and roads (service=alley). I don't really want to debate this situation with a view to changing it, but could someone give me a quick explanation on how this arose? It seems a little