On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote:
There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may
not be able to see it. To a person like myself I can still find the
signs on the earth of where the
On 2015-03-31 23:12, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
For background, in the USA there is an intermediate step to
abandonment. A corridor can be railbanked,
meaning the easements don't expire. It's not an active railway, but
it can be returned to rail service
via an administrative procedure. And in fact,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
OpenHistoricalMap. Read about it here:
http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/about but better still, come join the
Mappy Hour next week.
That is great! nice to hear about that project. Good job!
--
James Michael DuPont
Here in Kansas we have very many abandoned railways (and many pickup trucks
to replace them) that are turned into trails or paved over and still
visible. I would say if there is any sign of them left to keep the
information in some way.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Bryce Nesbitt
On 4/1/15 3:14 AM, Mike Dupont wrote:
Here in Kansas we have very many abandoned railways (and many pickup
trucks to replace them) that are turned into trails or paved over and
still visible. I would say if there is any sign of them left to keep
the information in some way.
this is a
Mark Bradley writes:
Hello list. I have been communicating with a mapper who says he has been
deleting abandoned railroads (the ones where the infrastructure is totally
removed).
Oh dear. The deletionists have migrated from Wikipedia to here. How do
we stop them? Isn't it bad enough that
Paul Norman writes:
Without some kind of license giving permission, you cannot use other
maps with OSM.
April Fools! Yes, you can. There are many kinds of public domain maps
whose republication needs no license. For example, in the US all maps
published before the magic date, whatever year
Minh Nguyen writes:
On the ground, meanwhile, you'd tend to find no trespassing signs
on railbanked ROWs, no?
Railbanked railroads should always be tagged as railway=abandoned. The
whole point is that they *haven't* been dismantled or razed or
destroyed or whatever word you want to use for a
I understand keeping a feature in OSM if there is a remnant of the
railroad, but there are areas where everything has been replatted, regraded
and redeveloped, yet there is still a razed feature in OSM (for one small
example, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?#map=16/38.8663/-94.7943).
This
Brad Neuhauser writes:
I understand keeping a feature in OSM if there is a remnant of the
railroad, but there are areas where everything has been replatted, regraded
and redeveloped, yet there is still a razed feature in OSM (for one small
example, see
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
wrote:
I'd imagine that most railbanked rights of way would be mapped with
railway=disused (inactive tracks, possibly overgrown) or railway=abandoned
(no tracks but an embankment, greenway, or clearing still present), as
Frederik Ramm writes:
Hi,
On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote:
There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may
not be able to see it. To a person like myself I can still find the
signs on the earth of where the railroad once was.
Then map the signs
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