On 08/09/2015, Fabian Schmidt <fschm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > On 09/08/2015 12:16 AM, Dave F. wrote: >> I fail to understand why railways are singled out as a special case. If >> roads, buildings or woods get demolished, they get deleted. > > please have a look at the tag definition in the wiki: "where the rails > have been removed but the route is still visible in some way" [1]
Please have a look at previous discussions, the conflict is not about railway=abandoned as defined in the wiki but about mapping completely-disappeared railways where no feature (bridge, cuting, etc) remains, and sometimes incompatible features (houses) have been built at that location. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
