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I fully support this proposal.

The data and mapping needs have already been explained very well. I would mainly add the operational value of such a feature.

Allowing a level crossing to be identified and searched by its official number or ID would be very useful in both WME and Waze, especially for crossings located in isolated areas or places that are difficult to find using a normal street address.

As a track maintenance employee for SNCF Réseau, I regularly use Waze during interventions to obtain a reliable ETA that I can communicate to our supervision team. Being able to search directly for a level crossing by its number would make it easier to reach the correct location quickly and reduce the risk of locating the wrong crossing.

Today, some editors, myself included, create POIs next to level crossings simply to make their numbers searchable. This clearly shows that the need already exists, but storing this information directly on the railroad crossing permanent hazard would be much more logical and reliable.

Adding the crossing number/ID and, where available, the emergency contact phone number would also be useful for drivers and emergency services in the event of an incident.

The minimum information could be:

* official crossing number or ID;
* municipality / locality;
* railway line identifier where needed to avoid ambiguity;
* emergency contact phone number where available.

Ideally, this information should be editable in WME and searchable in Waze.

Finally, this is not only a French or US need: it could be useful anywhere in the world where level crossings exist, with each community using the official identifiers of its own railway network.

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Same need in France, and there is a public dataset to back it.

SNCF Open Data (ODbL licence) lists 16,878 level crossings, each with its own number and the railway line it belongs to. Emergency services and railway staff designate a crossing by that number - exactly like the FRA crossing ID you mention.

Today the permanent hazard carries no name and no number, so that identifier cannot live on the object that actually represents the crossing. Our editors are about to work around it by creating a POI next to the hazard: duplicated data, no maintenance, and noise in driver search results.

We measured what the missing field costs: 133 crossings share the label "PN 35", because the number is only unique per railway line. Without a proper field there is no way to tell them apart.

An editable ID/name field on the railroad crossing permanent hazard, searchable in WME and in the app, would let every community import its own official dataset instead of inventing a naming convention. Traffic lights can already carry a name, so the mechanism exists on permanent hazards - it has simply never been extended to railroad crossings.

+1 from the France community.