Frederik Ramm writes: > Hi, > > On 02/25/12 01:23, Richard Welty wrote: > > how do you tag a never-completed railway which has significant important > > landmark value in the current landscape? > > I think that what you are seeing is not a railway at all.
You're kidding, right? If you google search for "unfinished railroad" the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth search results you'll find is the specific one that Richard is referring to. > I suggest to tag what you see on the ground, rather than whatever the > object was that people once planned to build. I don't see why there > should be a "railway=cut" when a layman would never know the the cut he > observes was once meant to have a railway line. The people doing the mapping aren't laymen. I've been walking along with a group of people, needing to pee, going down a slope, and while peeing, I said "Holy crap, this is a railroad cut," and it was. I wasn't expecting to find one, but I knew it when I saw it. It's called ferroequinoyance -- the ability to spot a railroad from the barest of clues. It could be an alley at an odd angle, or a street that takes a funny turn, or a building with doors at boxcar height, or a crack in the asphalt, or a building with a corner cut off of it. Other times it's a historical marker which says "THIS IS AN UNFINISHED RAILROAD WHICH MARKS THE LINE OF BATTLE." Subtle clues are all we need. We know, Frederick. We just know. -- --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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
