Ben, True. But it also says that it is supposed to be showing a still physically visible item. Cuttings, grading, "a physical scar on the landscape". If it was on an area that's been completely built over so that you would have no way of knowing something was ever there, then I'd change the tag. That's not an abandoned railway, that's land that used to have a railway on it once, which is not the same thing.
Now, I might leave the way itself, and put a note on it. We may eventually come up with the historical mapping people have been talking about for years But I wouldn't tag it as railway=abandoned if you can see no sign of it on the ground. Note that, in this case, looking at the Nepean Highway in Google Streetview, there are some visible track lines where the line crossed it, which makes me suspect they just buried the track there. If it was that visible everywhere, I'd have no problem with marking it as railway=abandoned But I can't see it anywhere else, and it goes right through buildings. Stephen On 16 October 2011 05:45, Ben Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > The definition of railway=abandoned does include places where the track and > infrastructure have been removed. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway#Explanation_of_railway.3Dabandoned > > I guess over time, what was once a railway may become something else though. > > - Ben. > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
