On this, I'd consult Russ Nelson, the OSM diva of failed 19thC railroads.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
