Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

2019-05-19 Thread Tijmen Stam
as the actual tarmac stayed visible for a few months/years) Regards, Tim Saunders Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 16:03:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Mateusz Konieczny Cc: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics     Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways This is undesirable, OSM is not a place

Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

2019-05-19 Thread Tigerfell
Maybe, the OpenRailwayMap mailing list openrailway...@openrailwaymap.org might be helpful? I can not access their archives so I do not know if it is active, but it might be worth a try. May 18, 2019, 10:55 p.m. by nice...@att.net: > Tim, > This is a

Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

2019-05-18 Thread Mike N
Tim, This is a good point, but what if OpenRailwayMap were able to pull from OpenHistoricalMap to generate a complete picture of the network? I say 'picture' because it wouldn't be connected for routing purposes, but it should appear connected on a map tile. I have no idea how much

Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

2019-05-18 Thread Tim Saunders
+0200 (CEST) From: Mateusz Konieczny Cc: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways This is undesirable, OSM is not a place to map historic data. When I encounter such mismapped objects I remove them

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-17 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
12 May 2019, 13:54 by mailingli...@iivq.net: > In my environment, some people are adding old ("razed" railways to > openstreetmak, of which no trace is visible in the field. > This is undesirable, OSM is not a place to map historic data. When I encounter such mismapped objects I remove them.

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-13 Thread Tijmen Stam
On 13-05-19 01:33, Mike N wrote: On 5/12/2019 1:45 PM, Tijmen Stam wrote: Btw, do you know of a way to copy data from one layer in JOSM to another, while keeping it at the exact same position? Edit / Paste at Source Position (CTRL+ALT+V). Thank you (and John Whelan) I still wish it was

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-12 Thread john whelan
>Btw, do you know of a way to copy data from one layer in JOSM to another, while keeping it at the exact same position? Create a new layer down load a tiny area with nothing in it works fine. Select what you want to copy and copy to new layer. Cheerio John On Sun, May 12, 2019, 1:46 PM Tijmen

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-12 Thread Mike N
On 5/12/2019 1:45 PM, Tijmen Stam wrote: Btw, do you know of a way to copy data from one layer in JOSM to another, while keeping it at the exact same position? Edit / Paste at Source Position (CTRL+ALT+V). I still wish it was easier to migrate objects to Open Historical Map. While I also

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-12 Thread Tijmen Stam
On 12-05-19 17:48, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 07:54, Tijmen Stam wrote: In my environment, some people are adding old ("razed" railways to openstreetmak, of which no trace is visible in the field. It concerns both old railways which have been gone since 1933, e.g.

Re: [Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-12 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 07:54, Tijmen Stam wrote: > In my environment, some people are adding old ("razed" railways to > openstreetmak, of which no trace is visible in the field. > It concerns both old railways which have been gone since 1933, e.g. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/592259029

[Talk-transit] Old railways

2019-05-12 Thread Tijmen Stam
Hello, In my environment, some people are adding old ("razed" railways to openstreetmak, of which no trace is visible in the field. It concerns both old railways which have been gone since 1933, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/592259029 (Note that this piece still is somewhat visible,