[OSM-talk] stop deleting abandoned railroads

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 08/18/2015 03:21 PM, Richard wrote:
> Especially as many railways come with more or less dense key:ele tagging 
> they are much more reliable to derive height profile information than any 
> other data we have.

Do I understand you correctly: We should map abandoned railways because
we lack a good source of elevation data?

That sounds like a very strange proposal to me. Perhaps the wiki
documenting the "abandoned" value should be amended by "not to be used
for abandoned mountain railways, because cycle routers will prefer
routing along abandoned railway lines under the assumption that they
must be flat"?

Bye
Frederik

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