Maybe, the OpenRailwayMap mailing list openrailway...@openrailwaymap.org 
<mailto:openrailway...@openrailwaymap.org> might be helpful? I can not access 
their archives so I do not know if it is active, but it might be worth a try.


May 18, 2019, 10:55 p.m. by nice...@att.net:

> Tim,
>  This is a good point, but what if OpenRailwayMap were able to pull from 
> OpenHistoricalMap to generate a complete picture of the network? I say 
> 'picture' because it wouldn't be connected for routing purposes, but it 
> should appear connected on a map tile.   I have no idea how much additional 
> work that would be for OpenRailwayMap to show.
>
> On 5/18/2019 11:40 AM, Tim Saunders wrote:
>
>> I suspect I am a lone voice but I don't agree.� The thing that 
>> differentiates railways from a lot of historical features is they form a 
>> network, some if which is still an operating railway and a lot of which is 
>> still visible in the ground.� Having the extant sections in one database 
>> and the razed/dismantled sections in another is just making it unnecessarily 
>> complex to form a picture of the entire network, which for the sake of a few 
>> additional ways on OSM (which I agree would not generally be rendered) can 
>> be easily solved.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim Saunders
>>
>
>
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