Agreed on all of that, honestly. It's funny, but the one handy thing about the state wikis is having such a good place to keep notes. I started adding info to the Virginia/Railroads page just under a week ago because it turns out to be a simpler way of keeping notes on what I have and haven't started already ... and that way if someone other than me does start getting into rail in VA again, at least there's some pre-coordination work done. Not sure how many will, though - the only edit to the VA rail page before this week going all the way back to 2012 was fixing some of the categories at the bottom last year! So I think I'm going to have plenty to keep me busy for a while ...
It's funny, but regarding Wikipedia, and from coming back here after 10 years of being off on other things, their strict citation rules feel a lot like the vocal portion of editors here who are extra-strict about "map what's on the ground." I agree with both that and Wikipedia's rule in principle, but after watching the re-discussion of the abandoned railroad line "where do we draw the line" topic, from a somewhat-outside perspective, I feel like some folks' definition of "on the ground" is "if it were a snake it'd be so obvious it'd have bit me." Which is all to say, I guess every community has their one or two funny topics! Chuck VA On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/13/20 12:25 AM, stevea wrote: > > It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation! > > > > I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads. > (And we still have a ways to go there). > Yeah, for me the map is much more important than the wiki. Except for > Wikipedia's stupid citation rules, all that information belongs in > Wikipedia. Although if it drives more mappers, that's fine. Maybe we > should populate the wiki with the old_railroad_operator information? > That would be a smart. > > I wish NE2 could have managed to color within the lines. He was a very > prolific mapper. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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