Hi > I'd therefor like to propose that abandoned railways be treated like > borders. Even if you can't see it along a given stretch there are people > who can and they have put a huge amount of effort into that work. Lets > respect that and strengthen the community rather than deleting it and doing > the opposite.
I 100% agree. The amount of data required to map abandoned railroads is tiny. An occasional way through a new development is not going to hurt anybody or impair normal mapping activity. Apparently, the people that like to map railroads think OSM is the best place to do this. We are not in any position to be chasing them off. OSM has a long, long way to go still. Above all else, it needs to more active mappers if we are serious about being the best map for the entire world. Also, It seems likely they are also mapping non controversial things like roads while working on the railroads. Dave F, OSM is doing just fine. It is full of contradictions, redundancies, disagreements, and broken rules (see the tagging list). It is not some kind of business database that requires normalization, strict schema definitions, and vigilant protection. It can't have any once sentence rules defining its boundaries. It is a great big blank sheet of paper, relax and let the railroad people draw on it a bit. Nobody is going to get hurt. Jason _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
