[Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

[nathan proudfoot]

Hello got some questions about Railroads,
I have a passion for the preservation of railroads and the maps surrounding
them.  I both update current map data with a line per each track.  Track is
in most cases two rails attached by a sleeper or tie. I have over 10,000
edits over on GMM and under 4,000 with OSM.

I am mostly coming to ask about historic railroads and how to map them.
In my area we have lots of rail trails, these trails mostly have been
mapped by
bicycle=yes
foot=yes
highway=cycleway
horse=yes
name=John Wayne Pioneer Trail
note=railway=abandoned indicates a rail-trail
old_railway_operator=Milwaukee
railway=abandoned
Ect......

Is this the way that we should be mapping these as there are historic
attributes.
For instance we could add.
historic=ruins
ruins=railroad

or we could remove railway=abandoned
but in this case the railroad is rail banked and could be brought out of
abandoned status.

We have other routes in the state that are not rail banked and are historic
and are not seen as abandoned.

 Best Regards,
Nathan Proudfoot
email: n.pfoot at gmail.com
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