Because there was already a Concord-Lake Sunapee Rail Trail existing. Same name, same trail, so same relation.

Dismantled means that I looked and found nothing left. But it gets put into the map because there was a railroad there, and just because *I* don't see anything, that doesn't mean nothing is there.

Heck, even abandoned railroads aren't in the main OSM rendering, so I'm not sure what your concern is. Even a specialized rendering like you get from OSMAnd (and only when you ask for it) doesn't include dismantled portions. The reason to include both abandoned and dismantled railroads is so that researchers and trail-builders know what is what.

I'm not sure what your concern is. My concern is to preserve information. Yours seems to be deleting information. Could you maybe stop?

I went to Waterloo. I found where the railway went. I have photos. I have added the railway back. You missed a bunch of things, like railway crossing markers, a bridge, more rails in pavement, grassy verges which are obviously a railbed.

I understand that you don't want to map what you can't see. That does NOT mean that you should delete things that other people CAN see.

In respect of your desire to not map what isn't there, I have marked the places where I didn't see any railway with railway=dismantled. I hope this satisfies you.

LIDAR: https://orthos.dhses.ny.gov/?Extent=-8556501.232642915,5295760.517200517,-8551950.840802692,5297764.600535922&layerGroups=AdministrativeBoundaries,DEMIndexes,Orthoimagery&baseMap=hillshade

Photos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/abandonedrails/permalink/4359180144115467/?__cft__[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:0]=AZWmK6ugp13QUM0RzEPuioDVZuENuX0_KslwUWyrWy1yzSBU-3gOkr3ZRn4XNdOIwaNFCttIij3wzSsrjyIJT8iWTuIyDOApDwUTNsLnjOEI1-vx95yI5MFI9yUUtgSHSXB9h7KgIyKRv0em9YCE0GvF&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Of course there are no tracks left -- that's why it's an abandoned right-of-way. However, there is still an embankment visible on the LIDAR, so ... it should be left there.

I can see the railroad embankment on the LIDAR, so while you can't see it through the trees, it's there. I'll put it back. I'd appreciate you not deleting it without talking to me first.

There might be a few buildings built on the railbed. Many railroad tracks were lifted in the 1960's and 1970's. That's what led to the rails-to-trails act being passed in Congress. Railroads abandoned previous to then were often sold to the highest bidder, often the adjacent property owner. You can usually see where the railroad went, though.

In this specific changeset, though, it looks like you deleted part of the Seneca Falls Branch. I understand that parts of it may be hard to see, but there are parts which are not, and there is a bridge next to 77 East River Street.

Can you elaborate on "various fixes"?

From where did you get the location of the stones? Some of them are nowhere near any of the named features.

Can you tell me what these boundary stones look like? We went to the location of several of them on Sunday, and there was nothing there.

Did you notice that I used the existing relation which was mostly correct, and deleted the mini-relation you started? I hope that was okay.

Hi. You say that the rails are dismantled, but I can see rails in various stretches in the Google Streetview photos. E.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7427387,-73.424831,3a,60y,12.24h,88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSxwoOSPafGLze8jBzI9fjw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I don't understand why you would change FIXME to fixme. It's traditional to use FIXME because it stands out from other tags. Was this change discussed somewhere?

Nevermind, I reverted it myself. Add things you see. Don't delete things you don't see, because it's quite possible that someone else can see them.

How do you know it is "non-existent"? I drove from Elmira to Tioga Junction today, and it is visible the whole way. Please revert this changeset.

Yes. I AM the "local community", and I've only added about two dozen buildings. If I accidentally create an overlap, I'll delete the least-best rendition of the building.
I'm looking at every building, aligning the ones that are crooked, deleting the false positives, and uploading about 100 buildings at a time. I've got another 10,000 to go. I should be done by the end of April.

I agree. People are too ready to delete things based on aerial photographs without regard for the original editor who went to the place, and added a feature because he saw it.

Did you know there's a mile marker right about here: node/211886641 ? Says "B 165".

I think the H&B ran closer to the B&A. Right here: way/453312113
You can see on the google aerials that it's a straight treeline. Less obvious on Bing. Needs field work to verify.

access=* clearly says that access=yes means that there is no legal restriction. So how do we get OSRM to stop routing cars over footways??