Re: [Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-11 Thread stevea
Hi Nathan: Good to see your thoughtful questions here on talk-us. I have seen your edits and I believe you have a depth of knowledge about tagging railroads already. I believe in tagging attributes that we know to be true about things as we edit them, or before we edit them. Tagging is

[Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-10 Thread nathan proudfoot
Hello got some questions about Railroads, I have a passion for the preservation of railroads and the maps surrounding them. I both update current map data with a line per each track. Track is in most cases two rails attached by a sleeper or tie. I have over 10,000 edits over on GMM and under

Re: [Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-10 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 11/10/2013 03:30 PM, nathan proudfoot wrote: Hello got some questions about Railroads, I have a passion for the preservation of railroads and the maps surrounding them. I both update current map data with a line per each track. Track is in most cases two rails attached by a sleeper or

Re: [Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-10 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 18:26 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: We probably need a value such as railway=inactive for routes that are not in use, but still have the rails in place. The only problem is that, if someone erroneously tags an active but little-used route as inactive, this could lead

Re: [Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

2013-11-10 Thread Natfoot
John, As listed by James we have, railway=disused I would not encourage hiking or rail-biking any of these routes as they are in question by the tag of disused and most of these are still going to be private property. Once abandoned it is no longer a railroad per-say. Best Regards, Nathan