[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

Richard ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 12:08:23 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:14:28PM +0200, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> TL;DR: argument repeat, sorry.
> 
> On 09/09/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> OSM is map of the current state of the world - not map
> >> of the world how it was yesterday, 10 years ago or five thousands ago.
> >
> > Nobody is advocating to map the past, what is discussed is mapping those
> > elements of the past which somehow have lasted or have had a strong impact
> > that is still observable today.
> 
> Martin, have a look at http://osm.org/go/Zc9j8qfSV-?m (near Russ's
> most recent example) and tell me how this section "somehow has lasted
> or has had a strong impact that is still observable today". Whenever I
> looked at some examples posted by Russ, these kind of sections weren't
> far.

Not much is visible from the satelite but this is true for many other 
objects.

Richard




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