[Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap
Hello list. I have been communicating with a mapper who says he has been deleting abandoned railroads (the ones where the infrastructure is totally removed). As the premise of OSM is to only map ground-verifiable features (other than certain boundaries), I didn't want to argue with him, but I don't want to see this information lost either. I said I would look into transferring those ways to OpenHistoricalMap. Yesterday he sent me a message, saying he's identified two more abandoned railroads and he's giving me the opportunity to act on them before they get deleted. Can I export these ways from OSM and then import them into OHM? Or is there a better way or some other solution? Mark Bradley ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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Re: [Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap
On 2015-03-29 05:00, Mark Bradley wrote: Hello list. I have been communicating with a mapper who says he has been deleting abandoned railroads (the ones where the infrastructure is totally removed). As the premise of OSM is to only map ground-verifiable features (other than certain boundaries), I didn't want to argue with him, but I don't want to see this information lost either. I said I would look into transferring those ways to OpenHistoricalMap. Yesterday he sent me a message, saying he's identified two more abandoned railroads and he's giving me the opportunity to act on them before they get deleted. Can I export these ways from OSM and then import them into OHM? Or is there a better way or some other solution? Just wanted to point out that there's still a place in OSM for mapping railroad rights-of-way where the tracks have been pulled out but the ROW is still reserved and discernible. The Standard style no longer renders railway=abandoned, but it can still be a useful navigational landmark. In any case, I've CC'd the OpenHistoricalMap list, where all the experts hang out these days. -- m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
