Right. So if I delete the mapped rail line that doesn't exist, then
remap the individual pieces of track, the remaining point and
weighbridge, three overhead pylon mounts, one remaining station and one
cutting that remains as historical artifacts, then everyone is cool?
If it exists on the ground now, it will get mapped. Otherwise, it won't.
Matt
On 29/11/2012 4:46 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
Actually, the slope is slippery. People have made it about old roads.
There are people who have mapped old roads where they have been
completely developed over and no trace remains.
Mapping the traces of an old rail line isn't historical mapping. If
there are currently traces there then it's mapping the present.
*From:*Steve Bennett [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 28, 2012 7:02 PM
*To:* Matt White
*Cc:* talk-au
*Subject:* Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Matt White <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Admin boundaries are a slightly different thing - they may be
intangible on the ground, but they are also current. We don't keep
historical versions of admin boundaries either
The problem with the historical thing is that to my mind, it is a
slippery slope. There's a park near me that is currently, well, a
park. But I know that it was previously a quarry, and then a
rubbish tip/landfill, cos there is a sign saying so. But I
certainly wouldn't tag the parks as a quarry or landfill, because
it isn't. It's a park....
IMHO this slope is not slippery. Every time the "do we map historical
stuff" debate comes up, it's always about train lines. That is, we're
still at the top of this supposedly slippery slope, waiting to slide
down. Somehow, train lines are different. They just are.
To reiterate what I said before in different words: we're not mapping
"the 1890 route of a long forgotten train line". We're mapping the
vestigial traces of a former line. And I'm absolutely not proposing to
record any information about when lines opened or closed, or were
re-routed or whatever.
Steve
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