[Talk-us] bike rail trail as built vs as proposed and imported

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:19 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
> The Upper Charles Trail was included in the MASSgis import. It has a
> note="under construction". As imported and proposed, it slavishly
> followed a passenger and freight line straight to the center of town,
> but Milford sensibly added scenic curves and grades, connecting a
> picnic area and municipal ball fields, and using an interchange
> underpass instead of digging anew where I-495 had obliterated the
> rail. As fair as I can tell from web, it may not be completed much
> beyond where I explored on foot in Milford.
> 
> What are the tags for abandoned RR right of way that is NOT a
> biketrail, but still visible?

railway=abandoned 
highway=construction
construction=cycleway
note=Proposed cycleway

Successfully used this on a way that has since been converted to an
actual cycleway (removing the railway and construction tags, and
changing highway=construction to highway=cycleway).  I may have left the
railway tag off mine since by the time I was aware of the project and
OSM, the tracks were long gone.

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