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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/3/15 8:37 AM, SK53 wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I was just reading the railroad discussion on
talk-us, and was totally with Russ Nelson about his desire to
keep many rairoad grades in OSM. But then he said <a
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<pre>"I don't have an awful lot of use of OpenHistoricalMap because it's a
faux-layer. OSM doesn't have layers (for better or worse), and trying
to create them by using a completely separate database is a purposeful
attempt to #FAIL. Since my goal isn't failure, but instead success,
we're going to keep dismantled railways in OSM."</pre>
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<div>I wonder if someone who is on talk-us might correct this
mis-apprehension (and perhaps suggest more politeness too). </div>
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i saw that from Russ. he's an old friend, but he gets pretty
militant about<br>
this subject which is why i've mostly stayed out of this particular
discussion.<br>
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but i had been thinking about starting a new thread separate from
the<br>
railroad discussion bringing up the issue of perceptions of projects
like<br>
OHM.<br>
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richard<br>
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