Hi Matt, The question about mapping old, historical features is much wider than just the Australian context. I'm pretty sure the current consensus is that we old rail lines should be mapped - even if there is not much to see on the ground. There might be more than you think - there's a station building (now a community hall, I think), other things too, perhaps. There are probably other former railways about with much less to see (the Rosstown Railway comes to mind) - at least with this one there are physical remnants such as tracks.
So, yes, I object. Feel free to raise the issue on the main OSM talk list though. Steve On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Matt White <mattwh...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > A question for the list regarding historical/disused rail lines. > > The old inner circle rail line in Melbourne is mapped in OSM, and I'm > unconvinced of it being a good thing. Here's a little bit of it that I can > talk about with some local knowledge of: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?** > lat=-37.780512&lon=144.982887&**zoom=18&layers=M<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.780512&lon=144.982887&zoom=18&layers=M> > > Given that there is pretty much no trace of the rail line left, why are we > mapping it? It was "on the ground" 30 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. > > (That said, there are some small pieces of the track remaining - where it > crosses Rae St and Brunswick St Nth, two or three 15 metre sections + a set > of points just north of the end of Birkenhead St (including what appears to > be an old rail weighbridge), and a short three metre section in Edinburgh > Gardens, and the old North Carlton station building is still there) > > If there are no complaints, I'm going to remove it. It's historical, and > appears on old maps, but does not exist today. > > Matt > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-au<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au> >
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