Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread Blake Girardot
On 8/27/2015 11:02 AM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: There is no real-life trace left of https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/366610457 (amongst others) but it is currently in OSM. To me that is mapped fine for a dismantled/abandoned railway. There are visible signs of the railway on each end of th

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread Lauri Kytömaa
(I hadn't subscribed to this list, so the reply is to a seemingly random message and not directly related to that) I believe much of this recent discussion is happening because there's a ... misconception that hasn't been addressed, and the actual tags that have been mentioned suggest readers to b

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 27/08/2015, Andy Townsend wrote: > Back in > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-August/073669.html I > had a look at what caused the current flurry of discussion. Part of > the line in question was deleted by a mapper new to OSM; it was their > second and last OSM edit. I fi

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

2015-08-27 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2015-08-27 11:21, Dave F. wrote: On 26/08/2015 21:54, Andrew Hain wrote: Dave F. madasafish.com> writes: Hi Bearing in mind the wiki is used more often by new OSM contributors & therefore should be a clear & concise as possible, I'm curious why this icon is so prevalent: http://wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:02 AM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > On 27/08/2015, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I believe we're talking about abandoned railroad rights of way that > still > > mark the landscape, not something that no longer has a trace. > > No : > > Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com wrote Th

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 27/08/2015 10:02, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: ... the OP hasn't given a list of guilty deletions so it's hard to judge how justified each deletion was. Back in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-August/073669.html I had a look at what caused the current flurry of discussion.

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the point of the Wiki 'k=v' icon?

2015-08-27 Thread Dave F.
On 26/08/2015 21:54, Andrew Hain wrote: Dave F. madasafish.com> writes: Hi Bearing in mind the wiki is used more often by new OSM contributors & therefore should be a clear & concise as possible, I'm curious why this icon is so prevalent: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/thumb/5/5

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 27/08/2015, Paul Johnson wrote: > I believe we're talking about abandoned railroad rights of way that still > mark the landscape, not something that no longer has a trace. No : Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com wrote Thu Aug 20 05:12:49 UTC 2015 > Here's a perfect example of how a railway sho

Re: [OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

2015-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Tim Waters wrote: > I'd like to recommend OpenHistoricalMap.org (OHM) which will welcome > all types of historical, disused and abandoned features. Please, go > add every abandoned railway to OHM, and then together we can > eventually get an accurate map of 1880s