[OSM-talk] Buildings on abandoned railways (via Overpass) (was: Re: THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject)

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 12:59:06 UTC 2015



sent from a phone

> Am 13.09.2015 um 10:00 schrieb mmd <mmd.osm at gmail.com>:
> 
> out of curiosity I was wondering a bit, if there are lots of abandoned
> railways with plenty of buildings in the way, i.e. is this really a
> widespread issue?


I would expect more dismantled railways to be built over than abandoned rails. It still happens, e.g. in the city centre of Stuttgart, Germany, around 100 hectares of rail are currently covered with buildings:
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahmenplan_Stuttgart_21


cheers 
Martin




More information about the talk mailing list