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

[Warin]

On 8/09/2015 7:00 PM, Fabian Schmidt wrote:
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> On 09/08/2015 12:16 AM, Dave F. wrote:
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>> I fail to understand why railways are singled out as a special case. If
>> roads, buildings or woods get demolished, they get deleted.
>
> please have a look at the tag definition in the wiki: "where the rails 
> have been removed but the route is still visible in some way" [1]
>
> Building railway lines leads to many cuttings, embankments and 
> bridges, which e.g. predestines abandoned railway lines to convert 
> them into cycleways. This was frequently done and discussed for future 
> projects especially in mountaineous regions where I live.
>

Buildings that are in ruin have the tag ruin=yes 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ruins

Perhaps this can be added to the railways' condition list ... disused, 
abandoned, ruins, raised ?