Eric Christensen wrote: >The existing maps show abandoned railroad tracks in the area. That must >have been some time ago as there are no traces of these tracks left. > >At what point do we remove those from the maps or should we keep them >there indefinitely?
railway=abandoned is, like old_ref and others, a tag that doesn't always have any current "on the ground" relevance; it simply shows that there once was a railway along the way. If there's something still there, other tags like railway=disused (if tracks still exist; this should really be rendered differently from railway=abandoned), highway=cycleway, or embankment/cutting=yes can be added, or a linear strip of green may appear between two landuse polygons. railway=abandoned basically adds extra information that this linear artifact was a railway, while that one was something else (maybe land set aside for a never-built highway, or a park corridor), and provides interesting historical data (even for the non-railfans, it can be interesting to know how the area was served by railways, and where the rights-of-way have not been preserved). It could be argued that we should not render railway=abandoned, but only the related features that still give evidence of such, but I think the historical interest is enough to show them (differently from railway=disused, though). _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us