On 7 Sep 2015 15:31:02 -0000 Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > people who reject mapping abandoned railroads
Nobody is against mapping abandoned railroads that are existing. But mapping objects that are fully and completely gone is explicitly documented to be unwanted in the same way as copyright violations or completely subjective ratings - see for example www.openstreetmap.org/welcome - "What it doesn't include is opinionated data like ratings, historical or hypothetical features, and data from copyrighted sources.". Way forward is to prepare proposal what is the border between "there are mappable traces" and "it is completely gone and no longer mappable" not starting the same discussion again and again. OSM is not for mapping everything, plenty of things that I map does not belong in OSM - and I am not attempting to store this data in the OSM database. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
