[OSM-talk] Abandoned railways

[Andy Robinson]

Ben Robbins wrote:
>Sent: 18 November 2006 6:17 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Abandoned railways
>
>
>Currently the abandoned railways tag is under railways.  This means its
>inposible to state if its an abandoned monorail, or an abandoned narrow
>gauge etcetc.
>
>I usaully tag highway=railway railway=abandoned.  But i now realise that
>highway=railway is 1) an outdated tag, and 2) not actually any more
>specific.
>
>There seems only 3 options:
>
>1) "railway=abandoned_[------]"  with railway type in the brackets
>2) Have an abandoned key wich anything can go under.  e.g.
>abandoned=narrowgauge
>3) (The way that seems a wastful use of a key and unorgansised but ill add
>it anyway)  railway=narrowgauge + abandoned=yes
>
>Personally I prefer idea 2, as this can then work fine for everything
>(abandoned=building or abandoned=unclassified etcetc)
>

Ben,

I believe your approach 2 is the best option and the way I have considered
this type of problem previously. It separates out the physical description
(railway=rail) from the administrative (status=abandoned) the latter is
probably not being used right now but it would appear appropriate unless we
have another similar across the board status type key that is in use.
"condition" might be an alternative.

Cheers

Andy

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>Thanks
>
>Ben
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