[OHM] Moving Razed Railways to OHM – Legal and Technical Matters

[Richard Welty]

On 11/26/15 8:37 AM, Richard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:30:18PM +0000, Michael Reichert wrote:
>
>
>> Are there any legal implications we have to care about? Or can we
>> just announce a "Let's delete old railways at OSM and add them to
>> OHM?". (We do not want to make a (semi-)mechanical mass import)
> The  "Let's delete old railways at OSM" sounds too much like asking
> for trouble. Just leave them there, some are usefull information even 
> if abandoned or razed and other will disappear over time.
>
i'm basically in agreement with this.

my rule of thumb for ghost tracks is that if there is a physical trace
of the track, it can go in OSM with appropriate tagging. as soon as
a track gets turned into a housing development and disappears, it
can move to OHM.

most of the proponents of keeping abandoned railways in OSM are
operating on the theory of physical evidence.

richard

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