Warin writes: > On 15/08/2015 3:46 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Railway=dismantled. Doesn't get rendered except where it should be,
> do you still want railway=disused to remain? Are we even talking about the same thing? Let's assume that you made a s mple t po. Don't those last two words look a little weird with missing bits? Shouldn't those letters be there? Shouldn't the dismantled bits of a railroad be in OSM as dismantled bits? Lookit, I'm also a fan of unfinished railroads. http://russnelson.com/unfinished-railroads.html You don't see me insisting that the unbuilt sections of these railroads get mapped, do you? No, because they never existed, and you can't see any evidence that they did. With a built, operated railroad, you *can* see evidence that they did, even if it's only because you can look left and see evidence of the railroad, and you can look right and see evidence of the railroad. Should they NOT be mapped through the farmer's field where they have been plowed into dismantlement? Now, I'm sure somebody will, at some point say, "Russell, just go off to OpenHistoricalMap and put your data there." That's fine, except for those pesky implementation details where THEY ARE IN TWO DISPARATE DATABASES, UNCONNECTED. How, exactly, do you make a relation that shows the entire route of a railroad when half of it is off in a different corner? I don't understand why we're having this argument. We map tons of things that you can't see. Why not map as dismantled railroads that have been dismantled? Why not make an exception to the "Delete it if you don't see it" guideline? It's only a small handful of people who are deleting and counseling deletion of dismantled railways. They are pushing a rigid, mechanistic, inconsistent view of what to map. If we can simply tell them "dismantled railways are cool, we love them, deal with it" then we'll be done here. I WILL BE HAPPY AND GO AWAY WITH AN EXCEPTION. Don't you want me to be happy? Don't you want me to go away? -- --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 https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
