[OSM-talk] razed railways and other things that don't exist today

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:45 PM Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Are underground pipelines and electricity transmission cables just as
> controversial? They are covered over, built on, and completely unobservable
> from the surface. They may also have been taken out of service many decades
> ago.
>

In the US, generally no.  They are quite infrequently mapped, and they're
tagged as an underground feature when they are.  That's quite a different
scenario from an ostensibly above-ground feature that is not present to the
above-ground observer.
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