[Talk-ca] Mass retagging for CPKC railroad merger

Clay Smalley claysmalley at gmail.com
Mon May 1 00:10:12 UTC 2023


Is "CP" or "CPKC" supposed to be in the name? Wouldn't it just be
name="Sherbrooke Subdivision", operator=CPKC?

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 5:27 PM wolfy1339 via Talk-ca <
talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Would it be wise to also replace the `name` when it contains CP as well,
> eg: CP Sherbrooke Subdivision -> CPKC Sherbrooke Subdivision, and to
> update `reporting_marks` accordingly?
>
> On 2023-04-30 17:16, Clay Smalley wrote:
> > Howdy northern neighbors,
> >
> > The merger between the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern
> > railroads is now complete [1], forming a new company named Canadian
> > Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC [2]. Since they
> > seem to prefer their trade name over their full name in official
> > communications, we went ahead and retagged all their trackage in the
> > United States with operator=CPKC accordingly [3].
> >
> > Any objections to performing the same mass edit across Canada?
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cpkc-unveils-new-logo-on-first-day-as-a-merged-system/
> >
> > [2] https://www.cpkcr.com/en-us/about-cpkc
> > [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/135352545
> >
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