<div dir="ltr">Has this user assessed these areas against the Surface Transportation Board data bank and if the right of way is rail banked? <br><br>There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may not be able to see it. To a person like myself I can still find the signs on the earth of where the railroad once was. We even have roadways that were built on old right of ways. I see this act as vandalism of data. </div><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 Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Minh Nguyen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us" target="_blank">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 2015-03-29 05:00, Mark Bradley wrote:<br>
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Hello list. I have been communicating with a mapper who says he has<br>
been deleting abandoned railroads (the ones where the infrastructure is<br>
totally removed). As the premise of OSM is to only map<br>
ground-verifiable features (other than certain boundaries), I didn't<br>
want to argue with him, but I don't want to see this information lost<br>
either. I said I would look into transferring those ways to<br>
OpenHistoricalMap. Yesterday he sent me a message, saying he's<br>
identified two more abandoned railroads and he's giving me the<br>
opportunity to act on them before they get deleted. Can I export these<br>
ways from OSM and then import them into OHM? Or is there a better way<br>
or some other solution?<br>
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Just wanted to point out that there's still a place in OSM for mapping railroad rights-of-way where the tracks have been pulled out but the ROW is still reserved and discernible. The Standard style no longer renders railway=abandoned, but it can still be a useful navigational landmark.<br>
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In any case, I've CC'd the OpenHistoricalMap list, where all the experts hang out these days.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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