On 31 July 2010 15:13, Heiko Jacobs <heiko.jac...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Michał Borsuk schrieb:
>
> > I agree with your arguments. Then "former"?
>
> "former" is a little bit non-specific.
> A disused or abandoned railway may also be called "former"
>
>
It's already called "disused" or "abandoned".


>
>
>  I don't like "levelled" for another reason: it is a word that is not
>> easily understood for those "English-challenged", that is beginners. It's
>> not a word that easily translates into other languages. For this I would
>> propose "removed". (Then it does not contrast with "dismantled" very much,
>> but frankly I am getting lost in those distinctions).
>>
>
> Better than "levelled" might be the words "converted" or "transformed"?
> converted/transformed to farmland/residential areas/village green/...
> including filling of cuttings and removing embankments ...
>

If  any traces of it are removed, then it doesn't classify for OSM.



-- 
Best regards, mit freundlichen Grüssen, meilleurs sentiments, Pozdrowienia,

Michał Borsuk
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