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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 7, 2020, 23:36 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 6. Jun 2020, at 00:04, Volker Schmidt <voschix@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>I do object strongly to the invitation to remove the razed/dismantled-railway tag in the case of railway tracks have been replaced by roads with the same geometry.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>+1<br></div></blockquote><div>Add I have no problem with removal of them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I see the point in cases of ones where there are no traces<br></div><div>but road geometry makes 100% clear that railway was there<br></div><div>and probably would not delete them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I see point in cases where track of former railway is marked/<br></div><div>memorialized/etc and that info is mentioned on OSM object.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But for cases where new road is matching geometry but shape <br></div><div>is not recognizable at all as track of former railroad, and<br></div><div>historic maps are needed to recognize it?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Deletion should happen, OSM is not for objects that are gone.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interior_Seaway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interior_Seaway</a><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Ocean">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Ocean</a><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Sea">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Sea</a><br></div><div>and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_oceans">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_oceans</a><br></div><div>also left traces and are not mappable in OSM<br></div> </body>
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