[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

[Richard]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 01:18:46AM -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > Now it is done with railways and may be stopped. But if 
> > completely dismantled railways are not deleted from OSM 
> > what would stop somebody interested in mapping completely 
> > destroyed buildings, canals etc?
> 
> You're absolutely right.
> 
> We should also stop mapping bus routes. These are often not supported by
> on-the-ground evidence, just by patterns of usage, and that might lead
> someone to map (say) the functionally equivalent corridors most often used
> by taxis or Uber vehicles. 

absolutely support that one. The current practice where bus-routes are often
tied to particular lanes or road links is just useless waste of our resources.
Perhaps those relations should be relations between bus stops?

Richard