Keep me updated from Washington State. I work for a Railroad. Nathan P email: natf...@gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > stevea writes: > > I have run into devotees of "old_railway_operator=*" and respect the > > tag by leaving it be where I encounter it, though I don't go out of > > my way to add it unless I have absolute positive knowledge of it > > (rarely to never). > > Yeah, it's an NE2 thing which he added automatically by changing the > name of abandoned railroads to old_railway_operator. He's technically > correct because the branch of a railroad, the name it goes by, is > often not the name of the company who operated it. The line that goes > south of Lake Ontario in NY was called the "Hojack", but was operated > by New York Central. > > It would be nice if map renderers, when presented with an abandoned > railroad that has no name, rather than follow the USGS practice of > saying "Abandoned Railroad Bed", would look for name= first, > old_railway_operator= second, and only if those two are absent, > rendered the railway as a dotted line labeled "Abandoned Railroad Bed" > just like the USGS does. > > > In California, rail is approximately "early alpha." For the USA as a > > whole, I'd say rail is even before that, in an "early development" > > phase. > > New York rail is 99% done. I say 97% because I need to hit some > railroad yards in Buffalo still. > > -- > --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com > Crynwr supports open source software > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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