Just a thought. Is the word tram widely understood in the US? That could be a reason, the closest to street car found is light rail maybe.
Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 14/04/2013 14:02 Rovastar wrote: Now I started looking at trams and lightrail I see more of a need of consistent standards. They seem to be used interchangeably in San Fran and in Portland which was quoted a good example in the US most (nearly all) of what I would call tram lines are tagged light_rail with some tagged as trams lines spurring off and joining them at them at some points. Does anyone know of a reason for this? Are they generally and/or technically considered "trams" or "Light Rail" in the states? Now there is no wiki defination at all of railway=light_rail. The more I look the more I realise how bad we are as a community for documentation. I consider light rail to be a mini railway and not on roads on tracks whereas trams in generally go on streets. I imagine wikipedia will say similiar. Any thoughts? -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Feature-Proposal-RFC-More-Consistency-in-Railway-Tagging-tp5756879p5757034.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Feature-Proposal-RFC-More-Consistency-in-Railway-Tagging-tp5756879p5757034.html
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