<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>You should put the railway=abandoned and highway=cycleway/whatever on two different ways. The railway=abandoned on the location where the railway tracks were, the second where the path currently is, which isn't necessarily the same place, like in your last example. So yes, you get some places where if it's accurately mapped you'd see two lines almost running on the same course, but not quite.<br>
<br></div>Other issue is of course: should the railway=abandoned even be rendered at all on the main map... but that's another discussion :-)<br><br></div>Greetings<br></div>Ben<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Marc Gemis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.gemis@gmail.com" target="_blank">marc.gemis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">While mapping my RWN walk near Hulshout / Westmeerbeek I noticed that there were 2 cycleways next to one another, running from north to south: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.063594818115234&lon=4.8265814781188965&zoom=16" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.063594818115234&lon=4.8265814781188965&zoom=16</a><div>
<br></div><div>One was simply mapped as highway=cycleway, the other had more tags and was also part of an RCN relation. Further investigation showed that the former used to be a railway=abandoned, but was changed to a cycleway in December 2012.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The ways are pretty long, running from Herentals to Leuven. The abandoned railroad way has ID <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">116738269.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I decided to reverse that way to railway=abandoned, but I'm not happy with it. It shows to parallel lines on a map (I know, don't tag for the renderer), but wouldn't it be better to add the railway=abandoned to the cycleway. ?</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Similar situation here: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.06616973876953&lon=4.476719498634338&zoom=17" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.06616973876953&lon=4.476719498634338&zoom=17</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">and here <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1060394346714&lon=4.379757642745972&zoom=17" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1060394346714&lon=4.379757642745972&zoom=17</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">in this case I wonder how you can see it, no remains are left.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">So why two lines for an abandoned railway and the cycleway/footway on it ? Can't they be combined ?</font></div>
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