[Tagging] unfinished railway of historic importance

[Steve Bennett]

On Feb 26, 2012 7:42 PM, "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
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> On 02/25/12 01:23, Richard Welty wrote:
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>> how do you tag a never-completed railway which has significant important
>> landmark value in the current landscape?
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>
> I think that what you are seeing is not a railway at all.
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> I suggest to tag what you see on the ground, rather than whatever the
object was that people once planned to build. I don't see why there should
be a "railway=cut" when a layman would never know the the cut he observes
was once meant to have a railway line.
>

So many counter examples to this line of thinking: highway = proposed,
admin boundaries, under ground culverts etc.

Steve
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