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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 2, 2021, 17:58 by kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:03 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div>This kind of temporary keeping no longer existing objects is commonly accepted.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(note temporary part - mapping objects that are fully and completely gone[1] and<br></div><div>unlikely to be mapped by accident is at best extremely dubious, and deleting them is fine)<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] so for example it is OK to map railway tracks where some evidence of them remains<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>We all seem to be reading from more or less the same page, then:<br></div><div><br></div><div>disused - track still present, could be put back into service with minimal work (vegetation clearance, track inspection, ...)<br></div><div>abandoned - track still present, deteriorated, would need construction work (repairing washouts//slides, realigning track, removing trees, ...) before being placed in service<br></div></div></blockquote><div>what you mean by "track still present"? If you mean "rails are still there" then I am pretty sure<br></div><div>that it is not how this tag is used, it is used rather for cases where rails are gone, sometimes<br></div><div>not even sleepers remain. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It also mismatches<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Ddisused">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Ddisused</a><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dabandoned">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dabandoned</a><br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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