[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 01:31:13 UTC 2020
On 2/6/20 9:44 pm, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 12:23, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com
> <mailto:voschix at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Anyway the examples you find in OSM are few and in all cases I
> know the completely erased bits are a tiny part of the overall
> ex-railway.
>
>
> There are three ex-railways in my area (possibly more). Even though the
> rail part of those railways has mostly been removed, the way part of those
> railways is still mostly in evidence. Apart from embankments,
> cuttings, bridges
> and tunnels there are the green corridors - either tree-lined hedges
> or trails cut
> through woods. Some sections have been repurposed as footpaths and/or
> cycle
> paths. A few short sections have been resurrected as heritage
> railways. The places
> where all traces have been removed and build over are very few and far
> between.
>
> I could delete those tiny sections of ex-railway that somebody spent time
> mapping, but then it loses the coherence that aids understanding (unless I
> shove the pieces into some sort of relation).
>
> I understand the perspective of the purists, and one day a purist may come
> along and remove sections where all traces have gone. But I have other
> things
> I could be mapping so I won't bother doing it myself.
>
> --
> Paul
>
Here is an entry by some one who thinks it should be in OSM ...
Way: former Ballarat - Buninyong line (802945247)
Tags:
"name"="former Ballarat - Buninyong line"
"embankment"="yes"
"railway"="razed"
"ruined:railway"="rail"
If you look you will see that this 'embankment' does not EXIST ... there
are two car parks over it that show no sign of any embankment. There is
a building over it ... roads ... it does not exist.
Yet the person 'maps' it.
Note I put it into OHM some 2 years ago and removed it from OSM. Should
I report them to DWG?
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