<div dir="ltr">Keep me updated from Washington State. I work for a Railroad.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Nathan P<br></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:natfoot@gmail.com" target="_blank">natfoot@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Russ Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com" target="_blank">nelson@crynwr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">stevea writes:<br>
> I have run into devotees of "old_railway_operator=*" and respect the<br>
> tag by leaving it be where I encounter it, though I don't go out of<br>
> my way to add it unless I have absolute positive knowledge of it<br>
> (rarely to never).<br>
<br>
</span>Yeah, it's an NE2 thing which he added automatically by changing the<br>
name of abandoned railroads to old_railway_operator. He's technically<br>
correct because the branch of a railroad, the name it goes by, is<br>
often not the name of the company who operated it. The line that goes<br>
south of Lake Ontario in NY was called the "Hojack", but was operated<br>
by New York Central.<br>
<br>
It would be nice if map renderers, when presented with an abandoned<br>
railroad that has no name, rather than follow the USGS practice of<br>
saying "Abandoned Railroad Bed", would look for name= first,<br>
old_railway_operator= second, and only if those two are absent,<br>
rendered the railway as a dotted line labeled "Abandoned Railroad Bed"<br>
just like the USGS does.<br>
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> In California, rail is approximately "early alpha." For the USA as a<br>
> whole, I'd say rail is even before that, in an "early development"<br>
> phase.<br>
<br>
</span>New York rail is 99% done. I say 97% because I need to hit some<br>
railroad yards in Buffalo still.<br>
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