Tag:railway=tram_crossing

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• See ID/Controversial_Decisions#Tram_crossings which is being withdrawn.
• This tag has been added without any sort of formal proposal (in particular, primarily added by Russian community without any discussion with international community)
• Too confusing definition for many users.

Tram crossing - a point where a footway crosses a tramway on the same level. Sometimes equipped with traffic signals or warning lights and/or acoustic warning.

How to map

Draw a node on the path crossing the railroad and add railway=tram_crossing.

Tags to use in combination

• crossing:bell=yes/no if an acoustic warning is provided
• crossing:light=yes/no to add information about lights
• crossing:markings=* to add information about the type of markings on the ground
• crossing:signals=yes/no whether there are traffic signals for vehicles crossing the tracks

History

This has been adopted by iD in 2020 at 2.18.5 https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/release/CHANGELOG.md#2185 together with preset for railway=tram_level_crossing, now appearing alongside railway=crossing & railway=level_crossing. This was seen as controversial by some from debate in Talk:Tag:railway=tram_level_crossing, as recorded in ID/Controversial_Decisions#Tram_crossings. There are more documentation at Tag:railway=tram_level_crossing.

Note that iD pushes adding these tags at any intersection of railway=tram and road centerline, despite that due to our mapping practices it often is not representing place of a tram crossing. See examples.

Gallery

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  Tram crossing with traffic signals in Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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External discussions

• https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-October/048567.html
• https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/topic/88105/4 (in Russian)
• https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mechanical-edit-level-crossing-vs-tram-level-crossing/118980/
• https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/do-we-really-need-railway-tram-crossing-resp-tram-level-crossing/118987

See also

• railway=tram_level_crossing - A crossing between a tramway and a road
• highway=crossing - Pedestrians can cross a street here
• Proposal:Deprecate railway=tram crossing and railway=tram level crossing