John, As listed by James we have, railway=disused I would not encourage hiking or rail-biking any of these routes as they are in question by the tag of disused and most of these are still going to be private property. Once abandoned it is no longer a railroad per-say.
Best Regards, Nathan Proudfoot email: n.pf...@gmail.com On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:26 PM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>wrote: > On 11/10/2013 03:30 PM, nathan proudfoot wrote: > > Hello got some questions about Railroads, > I have a passion for the preservation of railroads and the maps > surrounding them. I both update current map data with a line per each > track. Track is in most cases two rails attached by a sleeper or tie. I > have over 10,000 edits over on GMM and under 4,000 with OSM. > > I am mostly coming to ask about historic railroads and how to map them. > In my area we have lots of rail trails, these trails mostly have been > mapped by > bicycle=yes > foot=yes > highway=cycleway > horse=yes > name=John Wayne Pioneer Trail > note=railway=abandoned indicates a rail-trail > old_railway_operator=Milwaukee > railway=abandoned > Ect...... > > Is this the way that we should be mapping these as there are historic > attributes. > For instance we could add. > historic=ruins > ruins=railroad > > or we could remove railway=abandoned > but in this case the railroad is rail banked and could be brought out of > abandoned status. > > We have other routes in the state that are not rail banked and are > historic and are not seen as abandoned. > > Best Regards, > Nathan Proudfoot > email: n.pf...@gmail.com > > We probably need a value such as railway=inactive for routes that are not > in use, but still have the rails in place. The only problem is that, if > someone erroneously tags an active but little-used route as inactive, this > could lead to an accident if someone went hiking or rail-biking on the > route. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. > Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." > Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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