You appear to have completely misunderstood the discussion. No one said
abandoned railways couldn't be mapped. Just that they shouldn't be
mapped in OSM, because they *don't exist*. Abandoned tracks would be
excellent as an OSM mashup imported from a separate database, which is
actually what this guy has done - his overlay is *not* in google maps.
On 07/09/2015 16:31, Russ Nelson wrote:
We should map everything that doesn't move
No. Everything that /exists/ should be mapped. "If you can see it, map
it" was an expression I heard in the early days of my OSM life. It's
good, basic advice"
I fail to understand why railways are singled out as a special case. If
roads, buildings or woods get demolished, they get deleted.
:
I could go through the discussion over the last month...
I'm not sure there's been a discussion as you've mostly ignored the
basic comment made - it it's deleted in the real world it gets deleted
in OSM.
Dave F.
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