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Post by whoaitspete
I'll throw a proposal out here and we can fine tune the wording/wiki grammar:
Use the following guidelines when mapping railroad segments:
- By default, enter "Railroad" for the street name of every railroad segment. (See more below on Naming railroad segments.)
- By default, select "None" for the street name of every railroad segment.
-- Occasionally, it may be necessary to name a railroad segment with display or navigational value. These cases should be reviewed by an SM. If used, commercial names should consist of the owner's (not operator's) full legal name (e.g. "CSX Railroad", "New Orleans Public Belt Railroad"), while transit lines should be combination of the transit operator and specific line if applicable (e.g. "MBTA - Green Line", "Detroit People Mover").
Use the following guidelines when naming railroad segments:
For commercially-controlled right-of-ways, rather than apply the default "Railroad" name, you may optionally use the owner's full legal name spelled out without acronyms or abbreviations (e.g. "New Orleans Public Belt Railroad"). Some owners' names incorporate what appear to be or once were acronyms but are actually part of the legal name (e.g., "BNSF Railway", "CSX Railroad").
In case of uncertain ownership, do not guess. Use the default "Railroad" name.
Do not name a railroad segment for a passenger operator that uses it, regardless of how many passengers or how little freight it may carry, unless you are absolutely certain that the passenger operator owns the track. For example, do not name a segment "Amtrak" unless Amtrak actually owns the track (it usually does not, except in the Corridor and in a few other areas).
Do not apply "fallen flags" (former owners that no longer exist due to bankruptcy or merger) in the alternate field.
Keep in mind that should the name of the owner change, due to bankruptcy, merger, or other business decision, you or another editor will need to come back and fix all now-incorrect segments. Railroads can change names often; for example, BNSF Railway has been known by that name only since 2005, and its previous name was in use for only eight years.
For urban rapid transit and light rail systems, rather than apply the default "Railroad" name, you may optionally use the name of the transit authority and the name of the line, separated by a hyphen (e.g., "MBTA - Green Line", "RTA - Riverfront Streetcar").
If a system has only one line, of course, use its name alone (e.g., "Detroit People Mover").
If multiple lines share the same track or run on parallel tracks, include all lines (e.g., "Metro Rail - Red/Purple Lines").
However, if a rapid transit system is so complex that including all line names would lead to an absurd result on some railroad segments, use the name of the system alone (e.g., "BART", "MTA") throughout the system.
This could all just be removed
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Railroads should be labeled as such in the editor. For the time being they won't make it to the client indeed, but in the future we might want to use them for display purposes.

The "railroad" road type in the editor is under "non drivable" so it should not cause any issue to the routing.
Remove the middle section or this entire section
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Post by wirefire2
Names are important for people who do business with railroads. It's kind of complicated to explain but but in urban areas where multiple railroads come together it can be very confusing quickly. Not everyone using Waze is driving a car. A lot of commercial drivers need this information.

It seems the names taking up too much space is the issue. I would suggest just using the railroads abbreviations (which is a very common way to identify them) instead outright deleting all that data.
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Post by xanderb
I agree with removing them. Currently the name provides no benefit to drivers. They should already have no city name and will not be a big deal to implement the change, Validator should be able to highlight Railroad type with a name present.
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