On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote:
> > ...wworthwhile to consider OpenHistoricalMap as a resource for > recording information about spatial entities that no longer exist in the > modern > world. this relieves us of the argument about representing them in OSM. > Somehow I come down on the side that railways have enough footprint on the current world that they belong in OSM proper, unlike say old buildings or former shops. A abandoned railway slowly evolves from a mappable way, to a series of other things, before disappearing completely. But it leaves significant land use patterns on the waterways, roadways and buildings it once ran near. I know it's a messy dividing line. I see it as important context to current day mapping.
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