[Talk-transit] totally abandoned rails

Michał Borsuk michal.borsuk at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 10:03:59 BST 2010


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Greetings,

LMB

On 28 July 2010 02:59, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
>   For tagging the status of rail infrastructure there are in use:
>
> I usually think it's good to look at existing practice by others.
>
> On USGS maps, and in US legal usage:
>
>  "out of service": rails still exist, but no trains.  shown as regular
>  rail on USGS maps.  OSM has no  aparent term for this.
>
>  "abandoned": this is a legal distinction, where ICC has approved
>  abandonment.  shown as dashed rails.  tracks may or may not be
>  present, but typically some track remnants.  OSM says "disused"
>
>  "old railroad grade".  Definitely legally abandoned, definitely no
>  rails.  often just traces of embankment.  shown as dashed line, no
>  hashes, but there are definite signs on the ground that there used to
>  be a railway (obvious to any train fan).  OSM says "abandoned"
>
> beyond that, "this road used to be a railroad" doesn't show up on normal
> renderings.  I'd be all for railway=historic to record previous route,
> and expect it not to be rendered on maps for normal people.  ancient
> isn't good, because it's not that it's old, but that it's no longer.
> There are rails near me from 1844 over which dozens of trains run daily,
> and some from 1876 or so that are very hard to find.  (The Fitchburg,
> and the Marlboro Branch, for the NE train nerds.)
>
>
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Best regards, mit freundlichen Grüssen, meilleurs sentiments, Pozdrowienia,

Michał Borsuk
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