[Talk-us] Creating relations for abandoned railway lines

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hi,

On 10 January 2011 17:23, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff
> <kristian.zoerhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I think what you want to use is route=railway, not route=train. The
> latter would include trackage (if any) owned by other companies that
> the E&BE used to reach downtown terminals, while the former would be
> the single line owned and operated by the E&BE.

At some point route=historic was a preset or on the wiki (I don't
remember), I think it would work better here.

Something like:
route=historic
historic=railway
following the convention of avoiding misleading the tools, which
usually just look at the one tag that interests them (route=railways
for example).

Cheers