[Talk-us] USA Rail: Calling all OSM railfans! (especially in California)

[Natfoot]

Keep me updated from Washington State. I work for a Railroad.

Nathan P
email: natfoot at gmail.com

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> stevea writes:
>  > I have run into devotees of "old_railway_operator=*" and respect the
>  > tag by leaving it be where I encounter it, though I don't go out of
>  > my way to add it unless I have absolute positive knowledge of it
>  > (rarely to never).
>
> Yeah, it's an NE2 thing which he added automatically by changing the
> name of abandoned railroads to old_railway_operator. He's technically
> correct because the branch of a railroad, the name it goes by, is
> often not the name of the company who operated it. The line that goes
> south of Lake Ontario in NY was called the "Hojack", but was operated
> by New York Central.
>
> It would be nice if map renderers, when presented with an abandoned
> railroad that has no name, rather than follow the USGS practice of
> saying "Abandoned Railroad Bed", would look for name= first,
> old_railway_operator= second, and only if those two are absent,
> rendered the railway as a dotted line labeled "Abandoned Railroad Bed"
> just like the USGS does.
>
>  > In California, rail is approximately "early alpha."  For the USA as a
>  > whole, I'd say rail is even before that, in an "early development"
>  > phase.
>
> New York rail is 99% done. I say 97% because I need to hit some
> railroad yards in Buffalo still.
>
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