TL;DR: argument repeat, sorry. On 09/09/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> OSM is map of the current state of the world - not map >> of the world how it was yesterday, 10 years ago or five thousands ago. > > Nobody is advocating to map the past, what is discussed is mapping those > elements of the past which somehow have lasted or have had a strong impact > that is still observable today.
Martin, have a look at http://osm.org/go/Zc9j8qfSV-?m (near Russ's most recent example) and tell me how this section "somehow has lasted or has had a strong impact that is still observable today". Whenever I looked at some examples posted by Russ, these kind of sections weren't far. When stuff have been contructed over the former railroad like this, there's no need for a local survey to see that nothing is left. IMHO, at most a section of Albert Street could have railway=abandoned as an additional tag. I have my doubts about the sections under the forest too, but that requires a survey to assert. So there is at least one contributor who "is advocating to map the past". I have a feeling Russ is an exception in this respect (Lester's view are close but more nuanced), but he is so passionate that this thread keeps resurecting. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
