[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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