[Tagging] Advice on names for disused/abandoned railways?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/9/3 Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net>:
> old_name is documented for other objects. old_operator makes sense instead
> of operator, too.


I don't like old_name or old_operator very much, because what do you
do with 2, 3 or more old names/operators?

For old names it could be name:[1835-1918]=blabla but for operators it
would probably be better not to put the whole history of a company on
every single way. According to the situation we might use a relation
for the company and then attach the geometry to it (in cases that a
company was taken over / renamed and a whole network changed it's
operator).

cheers,
Martin