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[Kristian M Zoerhoff]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:24:27AM -0500, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff
> <kristian.zoerhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I've been working on adding some abandoned railway lines in my area, and
> > I've been wondering how to group them together. The line I'm working on
> > right now (the former Elgin & Belvidere Electric Co. line) has been re-used
> > in some areas as public streets, bike paths, service roads, and even a
> > railway museum, so I've had to break the line into quite a few ways. I'd
> > like to group them back together with a relation, but I'm not sure if
> > anyone's done this for an abandoned railway line, or if this is even the
> > right thing to do. My plan was to create a new relation like so:
> >
> > type = route
> > route = train
> > operator = Elgin & Belvidere Electric Co.
> > abandoned = yes
> >
> > It's that last tag I'm unsure of. Is abandoned = yes allowed/understood in
> > relations?
> 
> Dear Kristian,
> 
> It is most likely that no relation is required to group them together.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories

I've seen that, but I guess I don't understand the implication here. I'm 
trying to group ways that I split, so that I can show them together on a 
single map link. 
 
> Regarding "abandoned" see,
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway#Explanation_of_railway.3Dabandoned

I've seen and used that for the actual ways, but I wasn't sure if I would 
also need it on a relation or not.

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Kristian Zoerhoff
kristian.zoerhoff at gmail.com