Open tsobuskerudbyen opened 5 days ago
I investigated this today and can say the following:
The rest of the questions are a bit more difficult to answer. In the OSM links that you provided and with a look at Oslo tram lines in OSM I can see that they are mapped mostly as separate ways, which the OSM wiki recommends.
However, I also see that in a few places the roads are mapped as embedded_rails=tram
, which is the correct tag usage for the situations we are talking about here. The place in Oslo that you linked is not tagged that way. Do you know why?
Now, lets say that all ways which have embedded tram tracks are tagged correctly, what would you like to happen?
If all ways are correctly tagged then 1. is easy to do. 2. is harder and needs a bigger budget depending on what the exact requirements are.
Lastly, if you we need to have some proximity-based algorithm, the budget would need to be quite high. We have a few of those and they are very difficult to get right. One example was the application of the street name to a separately-mapped sidewalk. Even after a few weeks of tweaking the success of proximity-based algorithm was moderate.
We have data now, from both Sweden and Norway, that train and tram tracks are over-represented in accident data sets (Norway: https://www.toi.no/cywalk/ )
Ticket is about:
Example how it is tagged today Oslo tram tracks as part of the road: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4649716 - Google Street View: https://maps.app.goo.gl/deXbcDrZWJ4E9JedA Kristiansand train tracks as part of the road: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/376508066 - Google Street View: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9yiVH9Dqyzgx2rwP8