Hi Alex,

thanks for answer!

Best regards, Eduard <edward17>

Hi Eduard,

we removed usage=freight because it did not fit into the other values of usage=*. This tag classifies the type of a track, but freight describes by which type of trains a track is used.

It also means redundancy with railway:traffic_mode=freight.

For example, we need a possibility to decide between the public network and industrial railways inside steel mills or mining areas. If there was just usage=freight for both ones, it would not be possible to render them in a different style. So it is necessary to tag industrial railways as usage=industrial to be able to distinguish them from the public network.

For the public railway network, it is necessary to distinguish between main lines and branch lines. That collides with usage=freight: If a public line which is used just by freight trains (there are some cases in Germany), it would not be possible to mark it as an main or branch line. That is why there is the additional tag railway:traffic_mode=*.

I hope you were able to follow my example... ;)

Regards Alex

Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2015, 18:41 +0300 schrieb Eduard (edward17):

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Hallo zusammen,   in diesem OSM-Wiki-Änderung wurde der Tag usage=freight mit dem Kommentar "removed deprecated usage=freight" weggenommen:   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:usage&diff=121143 8&oldid=1161677   Ich habe nichts dagegen, ich möchte nur die Ursache wissen. Vielleich habe ich Diskussion darüber darchgelassen.   Viele Grüße Eduard <edward17>

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Hi there,   in this OSM-Wiki-Change usage=freight tag had been deleted:   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:usage&diff=121143 8&oldid=1161677   I'm not opposed, but I only want to know the reason. Probably I missed the discussion.   Best regards Eduard <edward17> _______________________________________________ Openrailwaymap mailing list   Openrailwaymap@openrailwaymap.org   http://lists.openrailwaymap.org/lists/listinfo/openrailwaymap

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