[openrailwaymap] Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*
Am Montag, 15. Juni 2020, 01:56:10 CEST schrieb Chuck Sanders:
We got this generally sorted out on the US talk list, but I have a
follow-up question where I feel like I need the wisdom of the ORM mailing
list more specifically.
We have a long term need in North America to preface our current
combination of [ref=*] [name=*] for labelling of main tracks with these
reporting marks, which is what got us started on the initial question about
the tag a week and a half ago. It's a universal industry mapping standard
here, and ORM won't be considered usable by the majority of potential users
here until we get that done ... but we're a long way off, and right now I'm
only concerned with a very specific question.
In the vast majority of cases here, lines have a single operator, but there
are many, many cases of multiple secondary operators (there is always one
What is a line? "Trains drive from A to B"? That is of no interest here, this
is only about the infrastructure, which should in basically all cases just
boil down to the owner. At least I _really_ doubt by all experience that more
than 1, and by no practical means more than 2 companies can get it right to
co-maintain such infrastructure. One that does the tracks and one for the
signalling maybe, but everything else? Tell me how that really works ;) Maybe
it works legally, but I fear for the safety of your infrastructure then :P
When you have a freight line running from coast to coast and where the engines
come from 10 different companies, that is just a route=railway (or something
similar) relation on top of that. This will not be rendered by OpenRailwayMap.
It's the same problem we have with all the subway infrastructure where people
tend to add ref=N where N is the line number on that tracks. It could even be
right, but in basically all cases it is not. Personal toy: in Hanover the
lines are numbered, but the infrastructure has letters, so it's easy to spot
wrong tagging.
Eike
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