[Talk-us] Railroads and Railroads (Historic)

[John F. Eldredge]

On 11/10/2013 03:30 PM, nathan proudfoot wrote:
> 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 <mailto:n.pfoot at gmail.com>
>
We probably need a value such as railway=inactive for routes that are 
not in use, but still have the rails in place.  The only problem is 
that, if someone erroneously tags an active but little-used route as 
inactive, this could lead to an accident if someone went hiking or 
rail-biking on the route.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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