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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2013 03:30 PM, nathan
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<div dir="ltr">Hello got some questions about Railroads,
<div>I have a passion for the preservation of railroads and the
maps surrounding them. I both update current map data with a
line per each track. Track is in most cases two rails
attached by a sleeper or tie. I have over 10,000 edits over on
GMM and under 4,000 with OSM. </div>
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<div>I am mostly coming to ask about historic railroads and how
to map them.</div>
<div>In my area we have lots of rail trails, these trails mostly
have been mapped by<br>
bicycle=yes<br>
foot=yes <br>
highway=cycleway</div>
<div>horse=yes</div>
<div>name=John Wayne Pioneer Trail</div>
<div>note=railway=abandoned indicates a rail-trail</div>
<div>old_railway_operator=Milwaukee<br>
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<div>railway=abandoned</div>
<div>Ect......</div>
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<div>Is this the way that we should be mapping these as there
are historic attributes. </div>
<div>For instance we could add. </div>
<div>historic=ruins</div>
<div>ruins=railroad</div>
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<div>or we could remove railway=abandoned </div>
<div>but in this case the railroad is rail banked and could be
brought out of abandoned status. <br>
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<div>We have other routes in the state that are not rail banked
and are historic and are not seen as abandoned. <br>
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Best Regards,
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<div>Nathan Proudfoot<span
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<div>email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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We probably need a value such as railway=inactive for routes that
are not in use, but still have the rails in place. The only problem
is that, if someone erroneously tags an active but little-used route
as inactive, this could lead to an accident if someone went hiking
or rail-biking on the route.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
John F. Eldredge -- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:john@jfeldredge.com">john@jfeldredge.com</a>
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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