Hi, I am one of the developers of OpenRailwayMap and annoyed by the reoccurring discussions [1] about abandoned and razed railways at OSM. We, the developers of OpenRailwayMap think that people map these railways just because ORM renders it (emails from US users confirm this as their main motivation to map abandoned/razed railway infrastructure).
That's why we plan to turn off rendering of abandoned and razed railways which are part of the OSM database. Instead, we plan to use OHM as single data source for these features. We do not expect that the OSM community will reach a consent. I do not want to start just another discussion if abandoned/razed railways should stay at OSM. We do not have much knowledge how mapping at OHM works (we are long-time OSM contributors and know our rendering stack, that's it). That's why we are asking some questions: Are there any legal implications we have to care about? Or can we just announce a "Let's delete old railways at OSM and add them to OHM?". (We do not want to make a (semi-)mechanical mass import) Is it just enough to copy the tags 1:1 and add start_date=* and end_date=*? The history of the moved objects will be lost. Do you plan any methods preserve the history of moved objects? Or should user just add a link to their OSM changeset which deleted the objects if they upload the objects at OSM? Best regards Michael [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2015- April/014569.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015- August/073665.html http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=52711 etc. _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
