[talk-au] Mapping things that no longer exist

Ben Kelley ben.kelley at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 20:45:26 BST 2011


Hi.

The definition of railway=abandoned does include places where the track and
infrastructure have been removed.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway#Explanation_of_railway.3Dabandoned

I guess over time, what was once a railway may become something else though.

  - Ben.

On 16 October 2011 00:02, Leon Kernan <lkernan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've got a question regarding mapping objects that there is no longer any
> trace of.
>
> In this case, i'm referring to a section of rail line, showing on the map
> tagged as abandoned.
> That in itself isn't a problem, if the track bed was still there i would
> say that it was absolutely correct.
>
> In this case however, the the rail line was removed almost 30 years ago and
> today it's completely built over with no trace of this section of track
> anywhere.
> The section in question is:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-38.22525&lon=145.04587&zoom=16&layers=M
>
> I guess i'm asking, do we map objects only as they are on the ground today,
> or is it ok to include things in the data that no longer exist but once did?
>
> Leon
>
>
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