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

[Minh Nguyen]

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?

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us