I don't think Richard's original post was an invitation to discuss arcane quirks of Britain's historical railway system.
I have raised the issue of wholesale tag changing several times recently, and as this tagging is clearly not with the consensus of mappers either in the UK or elsewhere, I would suggest it be reverted. Casual changing of tags can create a lot of work for people. That is one of the reasons why it needs to be discussed. In this case the different tag could have been added rather than obliterate a widely used tag convention. I would support a reversion of these edits, and ask the contributor to consult with this list first. Jerry On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>wrote: > 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<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Railways#railway:historic.3Dxxx_or_former:railway.3Dxxx_in_place_of_railway.3Dabandoned.2Fdismantled.3F> > > cheers > Richard > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gb<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> >
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