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 
additional work that would be for OpenRailwayMap to show.


On 5/18/2019 11:40 AM, Tim Saunders wrote:
I suspect I am a lone voice but I don't agree.� The thing that 
differentiates railways from a lot of historical features is they form a 
network, some if which is still an operating railway and a lot of which 
is still visible in the ground.� Having the extant sections in one 
database and the razed/dismantled sections in another is just making it 
unnecessarily complex to form a picture of the entire network, which for 
the sake of a few additional ways on OSM (which I agree would not 
generally be rendered) can be easily solved.


Regards,

Tim Saunders



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Re: [Talk-transit] Old Railways

2019-05-18 Thread Tim Saunders 
I suspect I am a lone voice but I don't agree.  The thing that differentiates 
railways from a lot of historical features is they form a network, some if 
which is still an operating railway and a lot of which is still visible in the 
ground.  Having the extant sections in one database and the razed/dismantled 
sections in another is just making it unnecessarily complex to form a picture 
of the entire network, which for the sake of a few additional ways on OSM 
(which I agree would not generally be rendered) can be easily solved.

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 to map historic data. When I encounter 
such mismapped
objects I remove them.
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