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

[Peter Miller]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:55, Greg Troxel wrote:

>
> Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> writes:
>
>> On 08/11/2009 06:10 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>>> But, is "abandoned" really in use in other countries to mean what  
>>> in the
>>> US we call "old railroad grade"?  (Here I am taking USGS norms to be
>>> established practice in the US.)
>>
>> Probably not; however, it is accepted practice in OSM.  As you say,
>> someone with more familiarity with railroad procedures and how they
>> differ between the US and elsewhere might be able to answer that.
>
> I think one of the bugs in OSM is failure to follow established
> practice.  But that's not worth worrying about in this case.

Do please join the 'talk-transit' list where we would love to talk  
about tagging public transport related stuff and where I often push  
for OSM to "follow established practice'. Talk-transit is *the* list  
where we can get a lot of these issues resolved in an internationally  
consistent way.
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit

Do also check out the public transport section of the wiki which is  
developing fast at present. more help would be appreciated. Here is  
the new public_transport wiki page with links to all the main  
transport modes.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport

And here is the category for public transport:-
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Public_transport



Regards,


Peter Miller
ITO World