[Talk-us] Moving historic railroad ways from OSM to OpenHistoricalMap

[Greg Morgan]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> On 2015-03-31 00:36, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/31/2015 08:04 AM, Natfoot wrote:
>>
>>> There is so many situations where to his naked eye on the ground he may
>>> not be able to see it.  To a person like myself I can still find the
>>> signs on the earth of where the railroad once was.
>>>
>>
>> Then map the signs that *are*, but not the railroad which - as you
>> correctly say - once *was*.
>>
>
> For many rights of way, the main remaining feature is a greenway cutting
> across farmland -- something you can easily armchair map, even. Personally,
> I'd rather map that ROW as a railway=abandoned way than as a natural=wood
> area, just as I avoid mapping roads as areas. On the ground, meanwhile,
> you'd tend to find no trespassing signs on railbanked ROWs, no?



https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/330316713

Yep!  Mapped that back in March 2015.  These are significant navigation
features, if it rendered.  The desert will preserve these features for
years.  It is also a feature that should not be moved into OSH.  Perhaps
copied but not moved.

Regards,
Greg
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