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

[Russ Nelson]

Dave F. writes:
 > >   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 tracks in your photos.

highway=track
railway=abandoned

There are a lot of railway=abandoned that are not highway=track, so
clearly railway=abandoned by itself is fine. And there are a lot of
highway=track that were never railways. And ... there are many
highway=track that are also railway=abandoned. If you disagree with
the above pair, exactly how do you say we should tag a highway that
used to be a railway if NOT the above pair?

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

And it's an abandoned railway. The spike and coal prove it beyond a
shadow of a doubt. And yet you doubt. What evidence would it take to
convince you that this is an abandoned railway? Do I need to show you
historic maps? Do I need to show you railway stations that still
exist? Do I need to show you railway bridges? What evidence, exactly,
do you require to keep you from destroying other people's work?

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

But you didn't answer my question: why do you think it is in any way
acceptable to delete things that were added to OSM which are factually
true?

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