map/find railway=rail
map/find highway=footway or highway=path and do not mark it as access=no - attach it to an existing road then create shared node with railway
Expected:
iD asks mapper to provide info is it illegal crossing (crossing=no on shared node, ideally access=no on footway section) or is it signed legal crossing (railway=crossing)
Can be skipped on ways with access=no
Why it is useful?
In some cases OSM maps existing illegal crossings without marking them as illegal. While I occasionally crossed railway tracks and it may make sense in some cases, such thing definitely should be marked.
And typical router engine would prefer to avoid routing over illegal railway crossings and providing such info is a good idea.
Description
To replicate:
map/find
railway=rail
map/findhighway=footway
orhighway=path
and do not mark it asaccess=no
- attach it to an existing road then create shared node with railwayExpected:
iD asks mapper to provide info is it illegal crossing (
crossing=no
on shared node, ideallyaccess=no
on footway section) or is it signed legal crossing (railway=crossing
)Can be skipped on ways with
access=no
Why it is useful?
In some cases OSM maps existing illegal crossings without marking them as illegal. While I occasionally crossed railway tracks and it may make sense in some cases, such thing definitely should be marked.
And typical router engine would prefer to avoid routing over illegal railway crossings and providing such info is a good idea.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing%3Dno (was also mentioned at https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/548 - note that "most (90%) of the usages of this tag are in combination with highway=traffic_signals")
See https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mhm for such problematic railway-path intersections.
See https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mhn for all such problematic intersections, also rail-road ones.
See say https://www.radiolodz.pl/posts/27234-zamkneli-przejscie-przez-tory-zgierzanie-protestuja for a clear unambiguous illegal path that can be mapped but should be marked as illegal
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