On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned
>> railway?
>
> Then it's already tagged as a rail trail.
Which tag should be used, though?
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On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote:
What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned
railway?
Then it's already tagged as a rail trail.
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* Nathan Edgars II [2012-06-27 12:59 -0400]:
> But another popular kind of rail trail, a "rail with trail", cannot
> be found in this manner.
[snip]
> Does anyone have any ideas for tagging? The simplest would be
> something like rail_with_trail=yes or maybe railway=adjacent.
Either of those woul
On 6/27/2012 10:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Ideally a map of rail trails
should include them (e.g. the one in Trains magazine's May 2011
issue), but there's no easy way to determine if a trail is one.
I would map the ways independently when the trail is adjacent to the rails.
Duh? The
Currently it's simple enough to find most (correctly-tagged) rail trails
in the database: find anything tagged railway=abandoned and highway=[one
of the trail values]. These trails are usually flatter than roads, and
are therefore well-suited for long-distance cycling.
But another popular kind
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