[OSM-talk-be] Abandoned Railways / cycleways

[André Pirard]

On 2013-04-13 23:02, Marc Gemis wrote :
> ...
> So why two lines for an abandoned railway and the cycleway/footway on 
> it ? Can't they be combined ?

What to do is explained in the OSM wiki at ... Railways 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways>
> Abandoned - The track has been removed and the line may have been 
> reused or left to decay but is still clearly visible, either from the 
> replacement infrastructure, or purely from a line of trees around an 
> original cutting or embankment. Use railway 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:railway>=abandoned 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dabandoned>. Where it 
> has been reused as a cycle path then add highway 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=cycleway 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcycleway>. Consider 
> adding a end_date <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:end_date>=* 
> tag or more specifically a railway:end_date 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:railway:end_date&action=edit&redlink=1>=* 
> tag. 
It applies even if it now looks like a cycleway or anything but if you 
can still clearly see where the railway has been.  If Mapnik, Garmin or 
other doesn't display or use that correctly, they say that you must file 
a renderer bug.

Cheers,

André.





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