[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 28, Issue 18

[Matt Knutzen]

NYC has many of the same considerations... The MTA tracks in Brooklyn and Queens are a patchwork of tracks that have... never been anything but subway tracks, lines wholly converted from private rail company lines, and bits and pieces cannibalized from a variety of sources.


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>   1. Re: tagging for historic race tracks (Richard Welty)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:09:50 -0500
> From: Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
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> Subject: Re: [OHM] tagging for historic race tracks
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> more fun tagging issues to consider:
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> 1) the original watkins glen course (1948 through
> the early 50s) ran on public roads that still exist.
> so it could be tagged in OSM. but maybe it should
> be in OHM instead? what do we do? it will never
> be raced on again.
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> 2) there are traces of old ovals in the form of
> city streets, one which is complete in San
> Francisco, and one which is only in part in
> Rhode Island. so these could be partially or
> completely tagged in OSM. again, what
> should best practice be? once more, these
> will never be race tracks again.
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> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:20:07 -0800
> From: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>
> To: Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> Cc: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [OHM] tagging for historic race tracks
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> These are great questions to consider - I've asked the same thing about how
> to represent historical Tour de France routes on a year by year basis.
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> I'll defer to others on this list on how to handle, but I did think there
> was something similar to bus routes that might be reappropriated for this
> type of application (e.g. a use-based set of tags, rather than
> feature-based).
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> Do you want to take stab at figuring out a starting point for tagging
> conventions for this stuff & posting it on the wiki? He who writes first
> writes best?
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> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
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>> more fun tagging issues to consider:
>> 
>> 1) the original watkins glen course (1948 through
>> the early 50s) ran on public roads that still exist.
>> so it could be tagged in OSM. but maybe it should
>> be in OHM instead? what do we do? it will never
>> be raced on again.
>> 
>> 2) there are traces of old ovals in the form of
>> city streets, one which is complete in San
>> Francisco, and one which is only in part in
>> Rhode Island. so these could be partially or
>> completely tagged in OSM. again, what
>> should best practice be? once more, these
>> will never be race tracks again.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> richard
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>> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting
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