[OHM] Railroad discussion on talk-us

[Richard Welty]

On 4/3/15 8:37 AM, SK53 wrote:
> I was just reading the railroad discussion on talk-us, and was totally
> with Russ Nelson about his desire to keep many rairoad grades in OSM.
> But then he said this
> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2015-April/014575.html>:
>
>     "I don't have an awful lot of use of OpenHistoricalMap because it's a
>     faux-layer. OSM doesn't have layers (for better or worse), and trying
>     to create them by using a completely separate database is a purposeful
>     attempt to #FAIL. Since my goal isn't failure, but instead success,
>     we're going to keep dismantled railways in OSM."
>
> I wonder if someone who is on talk-us might correct this
> mis-apprehension (and perhaps suggest more politeness too).
>
i saw that from Russ. he's an old friend, but he gets pretty militant about
this subject which is why i've mostly stayed out of this particular
discussion.

but i had been thinking about starting a new thread separate from the
railroad discussion bringing up the issue of perceptions of projects like
OHM.

richard

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