[talk-au] Mapping things that no longer exist

[Stephen Hope]

I don't have a problem with having the way itself in the database, but
I don't think that railway=abandoned is the correct tag for it, as it
doesn't fit the definition. I don't think we really have a proper,
accepted method for showing historical data that is important and/or
interesting to know, but doesn't actually exist at this point any
more. People keep trying to come up with one, but there are a lot of
problems ranging from verifiability through to just making things hard
to edit.

Stephen


On 17 October 2011 13:00, Leon Kernan <lkernan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen,
> Your right, on google you can see track marks. That actually surprised me
> because i've never actually noticed them when i drive through there!
> The rest is long gone, and i'm pretty sure they didn't just bury it since
> there are houses and shops built on the old alignment.  The shopping centre
> also has an underground car park, so there won't be much there either.
> My main reason for asking was that i have actually removed this once and it
> was re-added.
> I was hoping to get some more opinions and see what the general view is
> about this.
> My view is remove it, if it was a building that had been demolished and
> replaced, we wouldn't still keep the old one in the data.
>
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