Hello For tagging the status of rail infrastructure there are in use:
- proposed or planned for rails not yet existing - construction - ... (nothing for rails in use) - disused for existing rails not in use anymore - abandoned (or sometimes dismantled) for rails not existing anymore, but "traces" already exist (gravel, embankments, cuttings, sometimes old rails crossing a way, ...) ... using to alternative taggings: - railway=abandoned / abandoned=tram or - railway=tram abandoned=yes Sometimes the "traces" of a railway are very "virtual": - One or two streets/ways may follow the old railway and the railway declares why the ways have this position - the edges of parcels of land may follow old railways - scrub follows the old railway - ... using abandoned may be beyond the scope of the definition of abandoned ... Sometimes no trace exist anymore - because the whole area is covered by a new urban quarter where streets don't follow old railways ... - farmland has occupied the old railway - surface mining - ... using abandoned then, rendered in Mapnik slippy map and osmarender, this will disturb the map from view of the not railway-historical interested ones ;-) So I just searching for a suitable word for tagging traceless dissappeard railways ... A "disturbed local community" ;-) proposed two words - historic, but this collides with existing historic tagging - ancient, but this sounds "very, very old", old greeks and romans ... ;-) And both are not suitable to the existing scheme planned-construction-...-disused-abandoned which are independent from their age. An railway may be abandoned 2 weeks or 100 years ago ... So this words don't satisfy me ... I'm searching something like "traceless", "virtual", "very, really very abandoned", ... Does anybody has an idea? Mueck _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
