<div dir="auto">I actually think it should be deleted entirely since nothing remains of the right-of-way at the spot in the link, but I left it for a (bad) example: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134</a> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:47 AM stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you, Joseph, for recently editing that to railway=razed (and removing the erroneously entered usage=main tag). In this case, the tag railway=razed accurately captures the semantics of this rail right-of-way.<br>
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> On Dec 31, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Re: "the traces of rail ballast in the soil, the signs of deteriorated embankments, cuttings and ditches, and so on all are clear signposts"<br>
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> Yes, it's fine to map an abandoned railway in that case.<br>
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> However, I don't think they should be in the database when the right-of-way has been completely re-graded and the land has been re-developed, with new streets and buildings, totally eliminating the old features.<br>
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> E.g.: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134</a> - this is miss-tagged as an abandoned railway in this segment. <br>
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