On 4/3/15 8:37 AM, SK53 wrote: > I was just reading the railroad discussion on talk-us, and was totally > with Russ Nelson about his desire to keep many rairoad grades in OSM. > But then he said this > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2015-April/014575.html>: > > "I don't have an awful lot of use of OpenHistoricalMap because it's a > faux-layer. OSM doesn't have layers (for better or worse), and trying > to create them by using a completely separate database is a purposeful > attempt to #FAIL. Since my goal isn't failure, but instead success, > we're going to keep dismantled railways in OSM." > > I wonder if someone who is on talk-us might correct this > mis-apprehension (and perhaps suggest more politeness too). > i saw that from Russ. he's an old friend, but he gets pretty militant about this subject which is why i've mostly stayed out of this particular discussion.
but i had been thinking about starting a new thread separate from the railroad discussion bringing up the issue of perceptions of projects like OHM. richard -- [email protected] Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search
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