NYC has many of the same considerations... The MTA tracks in Brooklyn and Queens are a patchwork of tracks that have... never been anything but subway tracks, lines wholly converted from private rail company lines, and bits and pieces cannibalized from a variety of sources.
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Send Historic mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Historic digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: tagging for historic race tracks (Richard Welty) > 2. Re: tagging for historic race tracks (Jeff Meyer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:09:50 -0500 > From: Richard Welty <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OHM] tagging for historic race tracks > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > more fun tagging issues to consider: > > 1) the original watkins glen course (1948 through > the early 50s) ran on public roads that still exist. > so it could be tagged in OSM. but maybe it should > be in OHM instead? what do we do? it will never > be raced on again. > > 2) there are traces of old ovals in the form of > city streets, one which is complete in San > Francisco, and one which is only in part in > Rhode Island. so these could be partially or > completely tagged in OSM. again, what > should best practice be? once more, these > will never be race tracks again. > > > > richard > > -- > [email protected] > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:20:07 -0800 > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > To: Richard Welty <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OHM] tagging for historic race tracks > Message-ID: > <CAA1fFexccePOAQ=dhzrmg-b-u2hewqf4qq46vfwgb38ripz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > These are great questions to consider - I've asked the same thing about how > to represent historical Tour de France routes on a year by year basis. > > I'll defer to others on this list on how to handle, but I did think there > was something similar to bus routes that might be reappropriated for this > type of application (e.g. a use-based set of tags, rather than > feature-based). > > Do you want to take stab at figuring out a starting point for tagging > conventions for this stuff & posting it on the wiki? He who writes first > writes best? > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> more fun tagging issues to consider: >> >> 1) the original watkins glen course (1948 through >> the early 50s) ran on public roads that still exist. >> so it could be tagged in OSM. but maybe it should >> be in OHM instead? what do we do? it will never >> be raced on again. >> >> 2) there are traces of old ovals in the form of >> city streets, one which is complete in San >> Francisco, and one which is only in part in >> Rhode Island. so these could be partially or >> completely tagged in OSM. again, what >> should best practice be? once more, these >> will never be race tracks again. >> >> >> >> richard >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >> Java - Web Applications - Search >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > www.gwhat.org > [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > > OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch > osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> > t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap > f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/attachments/20141218/cd1680c7/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Historic Digest, Vol 28, Issue 18 > **************************************** _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
