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

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 23:15:42 -0400
>> Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>>
>> > What's this? Is it a trail or is it an abandoned railroad? See the
>> > spike? Where did it come from if not the abandoned railroad?
>> > Or the lump of coal hundreds of miles from any coal field?
>> >
>> > It's not a track.
>>
>> This is a track.
>>
>
It's a track.
A track that could well be part of an abandoned railway relation
(incorporating other bits of the railway extincting and not).

But the primary key is definitely highway=track, perhaps with some
secondary keys that hit at it's former use.

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Note that "rail trail" is a thing: and a presently mappable thing: this
should be clear to all concerned.
A "rail to trail" or "rail to track" conversion has present day meaning.
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