On 12 September 2015 20:02:31 GMT+01:00, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >On 09/12/2015 08:16 PM, Colin Smale wrote: >> Respect to Russ for standing up for his principles in the face of all >> this bullying. > >Well, to be fair, what you call "bullying" is mostly people standing up >for their principles. > >> Why are >> "former railway lines" which are no longer immediately evident on the >> ground forbidden so vehemently in OSM when so many other artefacts >from >> the past are not? Old_name, Roman roads, closed pubs, end_date, etc >etc.
I had been drafting a proper answer in my head, but Frederik did a better job than me (not just on the part I'm quoting here, on the whole email). Still, I'd like to add one reason: none of the other tags you mentioned have such a vehement, uncompromising, relentless champion defending them, reigniting the debate and prompting the same vehement replies each time. If for example the cherrished practice was end_date=* instead of railway=dismantled, you'd probably get similar flamewars. -- Vincent Dp _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
