Michał Borsuk schrieb: > I agree with your arguments. Then "former"?
"former" is a little bit non-specific. A disused or abandoned railway may also be called "former"
"Disappeared" cannot be used, because it implies that the railway just rolled itself and went home for Feierabend. Or a UFO took it one night.
For real railway fans only an UFO can explain why someone can have the absurd idea to remove any rail ;-) In times when discarded metall ist valuable enough also other explainations will exists ...
I don't like "levelled" for another reason: it is a word that is not easily understood for those "English-challenged", that is beginners. It's not a word that easily translates into other languages. For this I would propose "removed". (Then it does not contrast with "dismantled" very much, but frankly I am getting lost in those distinctions).
Better than "levelled" might be the words "converted" or "transformed"? converted/transformed to farmland/residential areas/village green/... including filling of cuttings and removing embankments ... "removed" might also be ok if it is clear enough, that the whole way incl. cutt./emb. is removed, not only the rails?
- proposed/planned - construction - () - disused - abandonded - removed/dismantled/former (if there really is a difference)
dismantled is seldomely in use an I think similar to abandoned
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If I found a cycleway as former railway I just gave both tags: cycleway and abandoned railway. Might be I change them to the new word ... If the cycleway uses the old railway gravel under the waterbound macadam a little bit of railway still exists ;-) Mueck _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
