Hi Markus-5, On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 20:14, Markus-5 [via GIS] <ml+s19327n5949371...@n8.nabble.com> wrote: > > I don't know the situation in other countries, but in Switzerland, > pedestrian train crossing are signalised (example [1]), while > pedestrian tram crossings usually aren't (example [2]), even if the > tram runs on a reserved track (i.e. separated form the road). Thus i > think it may make sense to use a different tag for pedestrian tram > crossings.
You're assuming here some default features of a crossing which is not railway=crossing is about. It's a mere indication that a crossing exists at a specific location along the railway=* way. To describe some features of a crossing you'd use crossing=* tag, like crossing=traffic_signals or crossing=uncontrolled for examples [1] and [2] respectively. That's how it's suggested at the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:crossing anyway. Consider also highway=crossing which doesn't describe any features of a crossing, while a crossing of a highway=trunk could be dramatically different from a crossing of a highway=unclassified. You don't though tag the 1st one as crossing:trunk=yes and crossing:unclassified=yes. Instead you'd probably put something like crossing=traffic_signals + crossing=island for the 1st one and crossing=uncontrolled for the 2nd one. > Besides, most pedestrian tram crossing where the tram runs on the road > aren't exclusively pedestrians + trams crossings, but pedestrians + > road traffic + trams crossings, and are already tagged > highway=crossing. I think these tram crossings are best tagged as a > property on the highway=crossing node (and, if mapped, on the > footway=crossing way), e.g. crossing:tram=yes (using the already used > crossing: prefix). The thing is that if even if tramway track is embedded into a roadbed and it looks obvious at the Mapnik in the OSM they are usually mapped as separate ways. Crossing of each of them are separate nodes: one at the highway=something another one at the railway=something. As a matter of fact there are plenty of tramway crossings in Switzerland which are marked with railway=crossing: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MY1 -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
