* Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> [2015-08-21 09:22 +0200]: > railway=dismantled means there is no railway currently but there are clear > traces / remains of a railway (because if there weren't we would not put it > in Osm).
Just for clarity: railway=abandoned (per the wiki and my understanding of things) is for when there remain traces of a railway whose rails are no longer present. railway=dismantled (and its synonym, railway=razed) was introduced to cover the case where people wanted to tag the path of a former railway where no traces of the railway remain (e.g. because the area was completely leveled to may way for a subdivision or mall). (Reasons for using railway=dismantled usually amount to, "The railway=abandoned traces on either side of the leveled area make the former presence of a railway a ground truth (because you wouldn't just have a gap in a railway) so the railway=dismantled way bridges that gap in the OSM database.") -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- Brillineggiava, ed i tovoli slati girlavano ghimbanti nella vaba; i borogovi eran tutti mimanti e la moma radeva fuorigraba. -- Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky" ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
