[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

[Russ Nelson]

Richard Fairhurst writes:
 > I suspect I'm more attuned to finding these traces than you
 > are.

I call it "raildar" or "ferroequinology". It's when you look down that
tree line and say "Hey, that's an old railroad", then you go to OSM
(possibly using OSMAnd), find that spot, and yep ... old railroad.

 > A few metres from the URL you cited is 
 >     http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/263868309

Yeah, Condie Street, hehe. I drove down it and then said "um, that's
barely a track, and certainly not highway=residential."

I asked Tom Hynes about all those identically-sized rectangles. He
imported them from his 911 dataset, wherein the vendor tagged every
building that wasn't directly digitized with that rectangle. He knows
it's not perfect, but his plan is to import whatever corrections
people make in OSM back into his database.

Speaking of Kingston, NY, the mayor who decided to shut down the
tourist railroad by parking a dump truck on the tracks (a felony in
the US) lost the Democratic primary, so he won't be mayor after
November. #WINNING

 > (Also, NY State Bike Route 32 sucks rocks. The traffic is heavy and the
 > shoulder is either non-existent or too narrow to ride. I would love to find
 > a way of mapping that.)

On behalf of the entire state of New York, I apologize for allowing
that road to be marked as a bicycle route. I should probably make that
my next project -- make sure that all the bicycle routes are in OSM
and are tagged properly for quality. I *have* bicycled on NY-32 and
yeah, it's not a shining example.

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