[OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

[Dave F.]

You appear to have completely misunderstood the discussion. No one said 
abandoned railways couldn't be mapped. Just that they shouldn't be 
mapped in OSM, because they *don't exist*. Abandoned tracks would be 
excellent as an OSM mashup imported from a separate database, which is 
actually what this guy has done - his overlay is *not* in google maps.

On 07/09/2015 16:31, Russ Nelson wrote:
> We should map everything that doesn't move

No. Everything that /exists/ should be mapped. "If you can see it, map 
it" was an expression I heard in the early days of my OSM life. It's 
good, basic advice"

I fail to understand why railways are singled out as a special case. If 
roads, buildings or woods get demolished, they get deleted.


:
> I could go through the discussion over the last month...

I'm not sure there's been a discussion as you've mostly ignored the 
basic comment made - it it's deleted in the real world it gets deleted 
in OSM.

Dave F.




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