Just a technical note, we'd need a server with some proper Forum-like software, so that posts like the one below could be pinned.
Any volunteers? Greetings, LMB On 28 July 2010 02:59, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > For tagging the status of rail infrastructure there are in use: > > I usually think it's good to look at existing practice by others. > > On USGS maps, and in US legal usage: > > "out of service": rails still exist, but no trains. shown as regular > rail on USGS maps. OSM has no aparent term for this. > > "abandoned": this is a legal distinction, where ICC has approved > abandonment. shown as dashed rails. tracks may or may not be > present, but typically some track remnants. OSM says "disused" > > "old railroad grade". Definitely legally abandoned, definitely no > rails. often just traces of embankment. shown as dashed line, no > hashes, but there are definite signs on the ground that there used to > be a railway (obvious to any train fan). OSM says "abandoned" > > beyond that, "this road used to be a railroad" doesn't show up on normal > renderings. I'd be all for railway=historic to record previous route, > and expect it not to be rendered on maps for normal people. ancient > isn't good, because it's not that it's old, but that it's no longer. > There are rails near me from 1844 over which dozens of trains run daily, > and some from 1876 or so that are very hard to find. (The Fitchburg, > and the Marlboro Branch, for the NE train nerds.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > > -- Best regards, mit freundlichen Grüssen, meilleurs sentiments, Pozdrowienia, Michał Borsuk
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