Frederik Ramm writes: > Hi, > > On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote: > > There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may > > not be able to see it. To a person like myself I can still find the > > signs on the earth of where the railroad once was. > > Then map the signs that *are*, but not the railroad which - as you > correctly say - once *was*.
That doesn't make *any* sense, Frederik. The signs are only there because the railroad was there. We are not making a map as a random collection of fencelines, and embankments and cuts and shadows-on-farmers-fields and trees-on-stone-walls. That's complete nonsense. There *used* to be a railroad there and that's *why* there's a fenceline and embankment etc. Maps are for understanding, not collections of unrelated elements. I don't have an awful lot of use of OpenHistoricalMap because it's a faux-layer. OSM doesn't have layers (for better or worse), and trying to create them by using a completely separate database is a purposeful attempt to #FAIL. Since my goal isn't failure, but instead success, we're going to keep dismantled railways in OSM. -- --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-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
