On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:28 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 July 2010 17:25, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> 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 quick explanation on >> how this arose? It seems a little odd, and somewhat confusing, to me. > > It's only confusing if viewed without other tags for context... > > highway=service and railway=service etc, would give you the context > needed then anything else just gives you more details about what type > of service way...
Actually it's railway=rail service=*. There could be a problem if a rail spur runs down the middle of a service road. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
