+1 to improved tagging for railways and happy to help! Bjoern On Sun, 21 May 2017 at 13:11, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2017-05-19 17:48 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net>: > >> As a railway mapper, I must admit that there is no tag to indicate that >> a station with railway=station is a passenger-only station. The opposite >> is possible to tag, use railway=yard. >> > > > Looking at the wiki definition, it appears we have defined railway=yard as > the tag for a freight station. This seems rather strange, I would have > preferred to use this tag for railway yards in general, i.e. also for > storing or sorting waggons / coaches / trains / locomotives etc., and have > subtags for the specific function (or already use different tags like > railway=sorting_yard, railway=freight_station, etc.) > > Reading more wikipedia, the term "yard" in conjunction of "railway" has > lots of different meanings, specific sub-entities refering only to a > (functional) part of a goods station or other part (e.g. marshalling yard, > flat yard, hump yard, gravity yard,departure yard, car repair yard, > transfer yard, ...) > > Maybe it's time for some refactoring? > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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