this is kind of an edge case, but a genuine one.
how do you tag a never-completed railway which has significant important
landmark value
in the current landscape?
there is a railway cut and fill in the Manassas National Battlefield in
northern Virginia
which wasn't completed 150 years ago and never will be, but it's still a
significant feature
of the landscape, and was of major importance in the Civil War battle of
Second Manassas
(so important that if the cut & fill hadn't been there, the battle might
have been fought
elsewhere.) it is most assuredly still physically present in the
landscape; here is one
of the cuts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfgusedautoparts/6921842009/in/set-72157629067291522
none of the "official" railway tags in the wiki cover it. i could, i
supposed, use railway=unbuilt
(i've used highway=unbuilt for a couple of defunct proposals in Albany
NY where other
mappers used highway=proposed for projects from the 60s that never got
built and
never will be.) unbuilt isn't quite right, though, it was partially
built and then failed.
railway=failed_project
or perhaps
railway=cut
railway=fill
representing places where work was done and is detectable, but the rest
of the work wasn't
finished?
any thoughts or suggestions?
richard
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