[OSM-talk-be] Abandoned Railways / cycleways

[Ben Laenen]

You should put the railway=abandoned and highway=cycleway/whatever on two
different ways. The railway=abandoned on the location where the railway
tracks were, the second where the path currently is, which isn't
necessarily the same place, like in your last example. So yes, you get some
places where if it's accurately mapped you'd see two lines almost running
on the same course, but not quite.

Other issue is of course: should the railway=abandoned even be rendered at
all on the main map... but that's another discussion :-)

Greetings
Ben


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> While mapping my RWN walk near Hulshout / Westmeerbeek I noticed that
> there were 2 cycleways next to one another, running from north to south:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.063594818115234&lon=4.8265814781188965&zoom=16
>
> One was simply mapped as highway=cycleway, the other had more tags and was
> also part of an RCN relation. Further investigation showed that the former
> used to be a railway=abandoned, but was changed to a cycleway in December
> 2012.
>
> The ways are pretty long, running from Herentals to Leuven. The abandoned
> railroad way has ID 116738269.
>
> I decided to reverse that way to railway=abandoned, but I'm not happy with
> it. It shows to parallel lines on a map (I know, don't tag for the
> renderer), but wouldn't it be better to add the railway=abandoned to the
> cycleway. ?
>
> Similar situation here:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.06616973876953&lon=4.476719498634338&zoom=17
>
> and here
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1060394346714&lon=4.379757642745972&zoom=17
> in this case I wonder how you can see it, no remains are left.
>
> So why two lines for an abandoned railway and the cycleway/footway on it ?
> Can't they be combined ?
>
> m
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