I would like to argue for a general do-not-remove-if-you-do-not-have-the-original-mapper's-ok-beforehand policy for these and similar cases.
I have myself mapped a couple of abandoned railways where the remains were often no longer recognizable individually as traces of a former railway, but as a whole, in particular in satellite photos it is clearly visible. This includes roads, paths, and vegetation strips that mark the former track, and former railway buildings. In my case the specific interest is to keep the memory of these former railway routes alive with the scope to have documentation ready to argue for the (partial) re-utilization as bicycle routes. Two other types of routes, not railway-related, also spring to mind: Historic Route 66 (which is actually being recreated as an official USBRS route for cycle tourists, trying to follow as much as possible the original roads). Another example where historic roads have traditional appeared on maps are the Roman Roads on UK Ordnance Survey maps. Best regards from Italy Volker
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