<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 23:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><br><div>I agree that it is good example of something on a boundary (assuming that both "rails completely gone" and "track of former railway is recognisable"). Do you have some good images showing both?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didn't map it (somebody else did), but I can observe the path of a former railway</div><div> because some of the route has the tree-lined hedges typical in this part of the world.</div><div>Often between such hedges is a farm track, or a road, occasionally a footpath, but</div><div> there is no highway along this route. It is an otherwise inexplicable pair of tree-lined</div><div>hedges, or gaps in woodland. With the occasional bridge, embankment and cutting.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, you need historical knowledge to figure out what the route was, but you</div><div>can identify it from aerial imagery. See if you can figure out which bit on the</div><div>map it is: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.0496/-4.6166">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.0496/-4.6166</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is the existence of those actual, verifiable features sufficient to justify</div><div>mapping an abandoned railway as explanation and to deter other mappers</div><div>from guessing there is a footpath or track where one doesn't exist? Is it</div><div>sufficient to justify mapping the whole abandoned line, even though it is</div><div>less obvious along much of the route?</div><div><br></div><div>I might not map such a line myself, but I'd be very reluctant to remove it.</div><div>Especially as I suspect there are bridges, culverts, cuttings and embankments</div><div> along it that still exist but have not yet been mapped.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>