Laurence Penney writes: > In principle, historic data is an orthogonal project.
Except when it leaves traces that can be found "on the ground". For example, the New York, Westchester & Boston railroad is gone north of the city, but you can find buildings with odd shapes. They're odd because the building was built up to the right-of-way. Or the Sackets Harbor & Ellisburgh[1], which is very visible on the ground if you know what you're looking for, but even if you don't, there are a couple of bridge abutments that still exist, 150 years after abandonment. Basically, I've taken my entire database of New York State railways and added it to OpenStreetMap, or used it to correct existing TIGER data. I'm gonna be more than a little big grumpy if somebody starts deleting it just because they don't know enough to be able to see where the railroad went. [1] http://russnelson.com/SHnE/ -- --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 mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
