[OSM-talk] Mapping disused railway lines

[Philip Barnes]

I have been exploring my 'new' local area recently, and GPS surveying
many roads that had been traced from NPE mapping and bore little
resemblance to what is on the ground. But that is the easy stuff.

My problem is that where one of these roads crosses the path of the
disused Wellington to Market Drayton railway, there is a stone bridge
over the road with a height restriction. For a working railway this is
easy, but the disused railway tag seems to have no bridge attributes. I
have added them, but no bridge has appeared on the map.

Apart from the lack of rails, this line is very much in existence on the
ground, with embankments and bridges still in place.

The bridge in question is here
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.78617&lon=-2.55434&zoom=18

Thanks Phil