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

[Dave F.]

On 10/09/2015 04:15, Russ Nelson wrote:
> Look at these two photos and tell me what you can see, what you can
> "verify":
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/G41ehgPJyfEWcvwH7
> https://goo.gl/photos/FfgSS5bDMQ3XW7MX8
>
> 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.

It's a track, Your photos prove it.
All it is, is a lump of coal..

> It's an abandoned railroad that is being *used* as a
> track.

It's a track that, once upon a time, may have been a railway.

> I'm not asking anybody else to map it as an abandoned railroad.
> I'm asking people to respect MY tagging of it as an abandoned
> railroad. Because when I see a spike, or a lump of coal, or a "road"
> which is level where no road needed to be but a railroad did, I map it
> as an abandoned railroad.
That strikes me as quite selfish. Why do you think other people can't 
amend erroneous data?


>   Because when I see a spike, or a lump of coal, or a "road"
> which is level where no road needed to be but a railroad did, I map it
> as an abandoned railroad.

Please give a list of tags you'd use to map the tacks in your photos.

>
> Don't destroy other people's mapping. Why is this not obvious?

What's obvious is that it's a track.


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