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

[Dave F.]

On 12/09/2015 03:18, Russ Nelson wrote:
> 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

Which tag takes rendering preference? How is the renderer meant to know?

>   exactly how do you say we should tag a highway that
> used to be a railway if NOT the above pair?

Why not  make it clear to the renderer & use a sub tag as an attribute 
of the primary track, which is the entity that actually exists on the 
ground.
Railway & highway are to conflicting primary tags.

If there was no evidence (detritus doesn't count) then I wouldn't map it 
at all.

OSM is a database of existing entities.

Dave F.



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