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

[Alex Mauer]

On 08/08/2009 07:31 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> The current tag definition is awkward:
> 
>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:railway
> 
> because tags mean something unintuitive:

It's not unintuitive, it's just not the same as US legal definitions.

disused = no longer used
abandoned = track/infrastructure removed

Is there somewhere that describes the difference between "abandoned" and
"out of service" railways, preferably something which is verifiable (in
the OSM sense, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability)?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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