[RFC] Feature Proposal – Unified ETCS Signals (railway)

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This proposal aims to create a harmonized tagging scheme for ETCS markers, a type of railway signals used in the European Train Control System. Currently, many national pages have different ways of tagging said markers, even if those are the same all around the world.

This proposal also introduces ETCS electrical markers.

With this tagging scheme the problem of the impossibility of tagging two markers in the same position should be solved. This is a big problem, as for example, “level transition” and “stop marker” are quite common to see together.

You can find the page of the proposal at the following link: Proposal:Unified ETCS Signals (railway) - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Please discuss this proposal on its wiki talk page.

Feedback, suggestions and any kind of help are welcome.

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Hello, your work is very great and thankfull, I don’t see a thing to say.

Do you know if there already is a proposal about changing the way of mapping a signalization from railway:signalization's_name=yes/no something like: railway:signalization=signalization1;signalization2;... ?

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Hi, thanks for the feedback!

I think this is the page you are looking for: Proposal:Railway:train protection - OpenStreetMap Wiki

But it doesn’t seem to have made any significant progress in a while.

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Just a little reminder of this proposal in case someone intrested missed it.

Update since last week: In the first proposed version the standard tagging railway:signal:CATEGORY=TYPE was not there, so to comply with the standard, I added railway:signal:train_protection=ETCS:marker indicating that there’s a generic ETCS marker, the specific marker is then specified as before.

If you know someone who might be interested in this proposal, please let them know about this page.