I've just been bitten by the minority, largely undocumented usage of
railway:historic=rail on a bunch of dismantled/abandoned railways in
Britain. Having exported some OSM data and done a few days' manual
processing on it, I belatedly find that various lines are missing due to
not taking account of this tag and I'm going to have to do a whole bunch
more work. :(
Taginfo/Taginfo GB suggest that railway:historic=rail is not used much
elsewhere in the world, and that railway=abandoned, =disused and
=dismantled remain the popular choices. No client software appears to
take any notice of railway:historic=rail.
Would there be any opposition to gradually reverting uses of this tag to
railway=dismantled/abandoned, depending on what's on the ground?
The only documentation I could find (on a wiki discussion page, of all
the obscure places):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Railways#railway:historic.3Dxxx_or_former:railway.3Dxxx_in_place_of_railway.3Dabandoned.2Fdismantled.3F
cheers
Richard
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