Talk:Tag:railway=level crossing
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On-street running
The automatic tagging of level-crossings is misbehaving in the case of wikipedia:on-street running. This is where a railway (not specifically a tramway) runs down the centre of normal roads, interacting with the pedestrians and traffic.
- [1] [MolliBahn, DE] (this is
=preserved_railway; I've tried to fudge it for the moment by using=tram, but this is not a solution as the start/end do not render nicely as the railway is set to render below a road in OSMA. - [2] [Helsinki Metro/VR access track, FI] (level crossing signs all over the place).
- [3] [Weymouth, GB] (kludged with
=tram) - [4] [Algeciras, ES] (level crossings all over the place)
- [5] [Porthmadog, CY.GB] (doesn't even bother to try; misrepresented).
These are a limited subset; there's various other non-tram (narrow-gauge, mainline + road ...) locations, particularly in the US where an active railway running down Main Street is not uncommon. There seem to be two issues:
- Automatic tagging of level crossings is presumptive. In alot of cases, people have worked from low-resolution imagery and just haven't placed a bridge combination there.
- The layering of railways and roads (with the exception for
=monorail) seems non-ideal. Roads tend to be wide and railways are thinner (both in real life and when rendered).
Richard notes in an example above the often railways are just rendered as a line crossing over the road; with the denotation (an icon or "LC") being moved off to the side, in order not to confuse the details of the crossing point. --Sladen 15:38, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
illegal crossings
How do I map an illegal railway crossing? There's a little path on both sides of the rail tracks. --René Mettke 16:31, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- How about two dead end footways? Then it is in the map but never used for routing. Lulu-Ann
- This has the distinct disadvantage of not mapping reality. See below. --achadwick 13:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Sounds like a footpath crossing. This isn't a level crossing anyway, so don't use railway=level_crossing. However, to answer your question: draw a third footpath way between the two path segments to either side. The third way should consist of three nodes, sharing a node with the first path, the railway, and the second path. Tag the third way with access=no or access=private, whichever is the assumed "foot" access parameter for railway lines in your country. This will stop it being used for routing, but reflect the situation on the ground. --achadwick 13:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
gate
How do you specify if the crossing is with or without gates? gate=*? --abunai 17:30, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- I've been tagging this controlled=yes or controlled=no. --BigPeteB 19:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Safety features
Hi,
we are trying to tag a level crossing in sufficient detail for a navigation software for the blind.
We need tags for:
- traffic lights (red/yellow/green) or whatever is standard in the country
- special traffic lights (yellow flashing, red flashing)
- lift gates, single sided or double sided
- sound (in Germany a bell when the lift gate is closing)
- oneway=yes/no on the railway=track.
Please tag footways next to the street and their lift gates separately.
- I have seen the following safety features (mostly in Hungary):
- Saint Andrew's cross (aka. crossbuck) - normal and one-and-a-half, with and without Stop sign (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbuck)
- Special lights (white flashing for go, two red lights for stop)
- Gates (full width, single sided; half width, single sided; half width, double sided)
- Lights and gates together
- I think there should be a way to tag all these things (maybe not the Saint Andrew's cross, because that's just an unguarded crossing). Furthermore, sometimes two or more tracks are guarded by a single set of safety features, but I'm not sure if it's relevant information. --Robert Vanyi 23:39, 27 September 2011 (BST)
