<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>
<div><br></div><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></div><div>railway=abandoned</div><div>Ect......</div><div><br></div>
<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><div><br></div><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><br></div><div>We have other routes in the state that are not rail banked and are historic and are not seen as abandoned. <br>
<br> Best Regards,<div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Nathan Proudfoot<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;line-height:13.991477012634277px"><br>
</span></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:n.pfoot@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.pfoot@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div>
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