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Railway Switch (AN080)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: an080.ttl

Name

RailwaySwitch

Kind

FeatureType

Definition

A device integrated with a railway track with which the rails may be switched to permit access to another railway track.

Synonyms

Railway Points

Accepted

2013-10-18

Geometry

point, multipoint, curve, multicurve, surface, multisurface, solid, multisolid

Subtype of

ZI028 Feature Entity

Attributes

• COS Facility Operational Status — multiplicity 0..1; datatype RailwaySwitch_facilityOperationalStatusMeta; values: COS_13 Operational, COS_14 Partially Operational, COS_4 Non-operational, COS_6 Planned, COS_9 Temporarily Non-operational
• PCF Physical Condition — multiplicity 0..1; datatype RailwaySwitch_physicalConditionMeta; values: PCF_1 Construction, PCF_2 Intact, PCF_3 Unmaintained, PCF_4 Damaged, PCF_5 Dismantled, PCF_6 Destroyed

Associations

• RailwaySwitchTrackInfo → ZI017 Track Information (0..1)

RWOI terms naming it

• RWO_02959 Railway Points
• RWO_02967 Railway Switch

Mappings

• osm#railway=switch-point: AN080 closeMatch railway=switch (point)

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.

OSM mappings: OSM_to_DGIF_V3.csv of che-dgif-interlis-tools. Licence: MIT, © 2026 Michael Lanini (swisstopo). See the FAQ.