[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?

[Joseph Eisenberg]

I actually think it should be deleted entirely since nothing remains of the
right-of-way at the spot in the link, but I left it for a (bad) example:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134


On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:47 AM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Joseph, for recently editing that to railway=razed (and
> removing the erroneously entered usage=main tag).  In this case, the tag
> railway=razed accurately captures the semantics of this rail right-of-way.
>
> SteveA
>
> > On Dec 31, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <
> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Re: "the traces of rail ballast in the soil, the signs of deteriorated
> embankments, cuttings and ditches, and so on all are clear signposts"
> >
> > Yes, it's fine to map an abandoned railway in that case.
> >
> > However, I don't think they should be in the database when the
> right-of-way has been completely re-graded and the land has been
> re-developed, with new streets and buildings, totally eliminating the old
> features.
> >
> > E.g.:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13375829/#map=19/33.78089/-118.15134 -
> this is miss-tagged as an abandoned railway in this segment.
>
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