Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-07 Thread Fernando Trebien
Pardon me if I expressed myself poorly. This mapper changed both the route=* tag of the relation and the railway=* tag of all its members from light_rail to subway. On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > Am 2018-01-04 um 13:32 schrieb Fernando Trebien: >> A Ger

Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-07 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Fernando, Am 2018-01-04 um 13:32 schrieb Fernando Trebien: > A German mapper just changed the rail type of a line [1] in my area > (southern Brazil) from light_rail to subway. > > Here those trains run on the surface (contrary to most subways) and > have no at-grade intersections with other tr

Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-05 Thread Tijmen Stam
> In terms of verifiability, would you map a metro system consisting of > a single line that runs above the ground with full grade separation as > a subway in OSM? That depends. Is it legally a subway/metro/u-bahn? Is it marketed as a metro/subway/underground? E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-05 Thread Fernando Trebien
In terms of verifiability, would you map a metro system consisting of a single line that runs above the ground with full grade separation as a subway in OSM? On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > 2018-01-04 13:32 GMT+01:00 Fernando Trebien : >> >> Do you think we could

Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2018-01-04 13:32 GMT+01:00 Fernando Trebien : > Do you think we could clarify on > the wiki that there may exist subway systems that run entirely on the > surface? If you believe clarification is needed, then go ahead, ok by me, especially if you write subway "lines" and not "systems". Cheers,

Re: [Tagging] Subway vs light rail

2018-01-04 Thread Erkin Alp Güney
Look up the LRTA's list (it is the office that determines whether a rapid transit is a light rail or metro). All other rapid transit systems are considered subways. 04-01-2018 15:32 tarihinde Fernando Trebien yazdı: > A German mapper just changed the rail type of a line [1] in my area > (southern