[talk-au] Converting railway= abandoned to highway=track

[Josh Marshall]

> On 15 Feb 2021, at 3:53 pm, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 14/2/21 8:09 pm, Michael Collinson wrote:
>> I think a much better option is to leave the railway=abandoned as is is and draw a new way using most but not all the same nodes for the new superimposed infrastructure. That way map makers who want to show old railway infrastructure can show the railway and choose to ignore the cycleway and vice versa. It avoids confusing cross-tagging and allows deviation between the two infrastructures.
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> OSM is for what is here now.
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> For stuff that is no longer here, then use OHM.
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> If a railway has been converted into a track then it should be mapped in OSM as a track.
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> If a track has been converted into a railway then map it in OSM as a railway.

I read through this discussion on railway=abandoned carefully before putting my plan together: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/542

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> Placing now nonexistent railways through presently existing houses, parking lots and roads is delusional.
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> And yes this has been done in Victoria... and I have changed it to raised:*=*. Hopefully it has not been changed back into 'existence'.

Agreed. In my particular situation, the railway goes through the middle of nowhere and I judge it to be very much ‘abandoned' rather than 'razed'.