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

[Dave F.]

On 08/09/2015 10:00, Fabian Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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, 

Then map those entities, but not the railway if it doesn't exist...

> which e.g. predestines abandoned railway lines to convert them into 
> cycleways. 

...and when it gets converted to a cycleway, map it as such. Map what 
exists & is visible on the ground.


Cheers
Dave F.

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