[OSM-talk-be] abandoned railways

[Ben Laenen]

wannes wrote:
> 2009/12/2 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>:
> > Now, should those abandoned tracks be mapped? Sure, why not?
> > railway=abandoned is just a tag made for it, implying that it isn't there
> > anymore. And it's just fun to see their influence in today's street and
> > housing patterns. But it probably doesn't make much sense to render them
> > on normal maps. The Mapnik rendering has been changed already a few times
> > between showing them and not showing them.
> 
> But it shouldn't be a priority.
> Or are we also going to map the Roman Heirbanen? :-)

Sure, already proposed: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/roman_road :-D

But of course these features aren't a priority, these tags are only there for 
when someone doesn't know what to do and the weather is too bad to go outside 
to map :-)

Ben