On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 02:57:29PM +0200, Volker Schmidt wrote: > Warin, Jack, > > your comments are really off my main point. > We have an unfinished mailing-list thread where we have different opinions > on whether a razed (on the ground) railway can be mapped in OSM. In the > middle of that discussion the abandoned railway wiku page gets completely > rewritten by one of the participants in the thread explicitly stating that > razed railways should be *removed* from OSM. > This is basically against good practice in OSM. > In addition the statement that where roads trace razed/dismantled railways, > the reference to the fact that they do, should be removed is clearly wrong. > Worldwide there are many thousands of km of roads and cycle routes that > retrace exactly former railway lines . what is wrong with adding > railway=dismantled (orrazed) to the ways that make up the road or the > cycle route.
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