This is discussed in Issue #1154: Incomplete rendering of railways with a ‘usage’ tag, but I wanted to highlight an upcoming style change in the Railway style [^1] that will de-emphasize rail=railway styling when it does not have any value for the usage key.
I think this will help cleanup/declutter our z=5-7 rail maps, but I know there are plenty of rail segments that lack a usage=* tag. For example, none of the segments of a big section of the Transcontinental Railroad in the US have usage.
So, please be sure to take a look at #1154, and I’ve reposted some of the updated Railway style screencaps from that ticket below:
z=5:
z=6
z=7
z=8
z=9
[^1]: The Historical, Woodblock or Japanese Scroll styles will not be affected.
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I assume it’s not completely easy for most to comment on sample screenshots alone. Networks are more complicated than a PoI icon and label. Need to have either some general opinions and preferences on rendering already, or or familiarity the example area to know what looks “correct”. Otherwise you are testing how well they can understand unknown layouts new to them, although that’s indeed one defining use of a map. When it’s available for preview on dev, you can attract more attention and feedback from users looking back at their area of editing or interest.
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Oh, I totally agree - did you see the other thread (I tried closing this one, but I think that was a mistake), where I pointed people to this doc: Priorities for Railroad Styling in OHM (DRAFT, for review), for a more thorough discussion? The doc is still screen shots, but with a lot of text and explanation. It’s a more thorough discussion of various factors in prep for a style test/preview map (which will likely just be our staging and production rail layers… that way, we can interactively test the style with new edits).
