Felix Hartmann writes: > The thing is - historic data that doesn't exist anymore is inappropriate > because it is confusing for anyone contributing to OSM.
Yes and no. When you have buildings laid out in a rectangular grid, but there are triangular bits cut out of them, that begs for an explanation. When that explanation is a not-longer-present railroad, I feel confident in adding it. That allows people to go on-site and find other railroad artifacts, like rails still embedded in the street, or buildings which still have railroad boxcar-spaced doors. So in this particular context, as long as there is still evidence of the Roman road, even if the road no longer exists as a right-of-way, it makes sense to add it to OSM. -- --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