Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Richard Welty > <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > > On 10/23/11 3:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> > >> On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > >>> > >>> from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local > usage. > >> > >> Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in Connecticut. > > > > ok, fine, but you're still making an assumption that may turn out to > be > > wrong. > > In this case it seems to be a safe assumption, though. Can someone > check TIGER 2010 to see what it currently says? >
Someone should check whether the local name for it may be Alte Eisenbahn, used untranslated as a proper name. This might well be a case where English-speakers adopted a non-English term rather than translating it, as with the Paseo del Rio (river-walk) in San Antonio, Texas. The eastern US had a lot of German immigration in the 18th and 19th centuries, and some groups, such as the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch, still speak German among themselves. The TIGER code for other transportation, rather than abandoned railway, might reflect the roadbed having already been put to other uses at the time the TIGER data was collated. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
