Bryce Nesbitt writes: > I've worked on "rails to trails" projects where the physical trace > of the railbed was subsumed by fences, lines of trees and (in once > case) a swimming pool.
I'll bet you're talking about the Wallkill Valley Trail north of Rosendale! I think I know the very place you're talking about! Guy had built his house right up to the ROW property line, and put his swimming pool on the ROW itself. Too bad for that guy that he didn't check OpenStreetMap first, because there was an abandoned railroad mapped in his back yard. Now that the trail has been built, he has a fence about 5' behind his house. I can't imagine he's happy now. I think Bryce's observation lays this issue to rest. No, you should not delete railways you cannot see, because they might still exist in the property lines, and if you haven't checked, you don't know. If somebody added it to OSM, they probably have better reason to have done so than you have reason to delete it, so leave it there! Thanks for your cooperation! -- --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