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This particular thing really annoys me. Fair enough if the track is
still in place - go nuts mapping it - but there are "disused" rail
lines marked up even when the track hasn't been in place for 30
years, and it's only an historical curiosity. See the Inner Circle
railway in Melbourne for example:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-37.78015/144.97908">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-37.78015/144.97908</a><br>
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I've been tempted to nuke this "disused" railway for ages,
especially as the current path doesn't actually reflect where it
even use to run with any accuracy.<br>
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Matt<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/11/2014 7:52 PM, Leon Kernan
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<div>Hi all,<br>
I've recently noticed a tenancy for people to tag railways
as disused, even when all traces have been gone for decades.<br>
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This is probably because railway=abandoned has been removed
from the rendering on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap.org</a> (to
try and stop people tagging abandoned railways..)<br>
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<div>Just a reminder to all that railway=abandoned is still the
correct tag for a track that doesn't exist anymore. <br>
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<div>railway=disused is only for tracks that are still in place
and able to be used (at least in theory).<br>
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<div>Has anyone seen a site that renders historical or current
railway lines so I can direct people there to see their work
rendered?<br>
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