Dave F. writes: > > Because when I see a spike, or a lump of coal, or a "road" > > which is level where no road needed to be but a railroad did, I map it > > as an abandoned railroad. > > Please give a list of tags you'd use to map the tracks in your photos.
highway=track railway=abandoned There are a lot of railway=abandoned that are not highway=track, so clearly railway=abandoned by itself is fine. And there are a lot of highway=track that were never railways. And ... there are many highway=track that are also railway=abandoned. If you disagree with the above pair, exactly how do you say we should tag a highway that used to be a railway if NOT the above pair? > What's obvious is that it's a track. And it's an abandoned railway. The spike and coal prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And yet you doubt. What evidence would it take to convince you that this is an abandoned railway? Do I need to show you historic maps? Do I need to show you railway stations that still exist? Do I need to show you railway bridges? What evidence, exactly, do you require to keep you from destroying other people's work? > > Don't destroy other people's mapping. Why is this not obvious? But you didn't answer my question: why do you think it is in any way acceptable to delete things that were added to OSM which are factually true? -- --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
