Thanks for your comments. I've been there, and I saw it. If you haven't been there, then how can you say "please stop adding junks"?

I'm looking at the Google Street View for the street that crosses this spur: way/394148791 and it sure looks like the rails are still there. Have they been pulled?

Some segments have been razed, which justified tagging them with "razed". I'm opposed to deleting them entirely because I don't know, and you don't now, that more field work might find evidence of them. For example, a metal detector could very likely find spikes, as some are always to be found. Or higher resolution LIDAR might show a shadow in a field.

If someone added something, it's always a good idea to leave it there.

Your changeset claims that you have looked for every single removed object and not seen them on aerials.

I have photographs of the P&SB and Ithaca Branch railbeds which you claim are "truly gone with no traces".

You need to stop doing this, or you will be stopped. Mappers have been banned for less!

I believe his "absolutely no trace left in the real world (never even built!). " comment comes from my practice of mapping as abandoned railroads those locations where a railroad was started but never finished. I map them as railbeds rather than as embankments or cuts or tunnels because that is what they are.

As you have noticed, he is not a careful editor. I have plenty of examples of locations (with photos!) where there are in fact traces: abutments, piers, bridges, fills and cuts which he has willy-nilly deleted. The damage he is doing to OSM is incalculable.

Hi, Greg. What gave you the idea that the Dunderberg Spiral Railway was to have been narrow gauge? Joseph Brennan says that it was to have been standard gauge. https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/dunderberg/history.html

Why did you tag the Twain trail as access=no? That's news to me, as my wife and I hiked it back in June.

Why did you map the never-built extension of NY-5 west of Camillus? None of the "service roads" seem to be used. May I delete them?

Oh, I didn't know about Oneida land claims. Fair enough. And yes, Salamanca might also be double-named because it *is* outright on the rez.

Why add native American names to name= when they are not used in or by the city? They are not the common names of those places.

Yup, yup, yup, and yup. Specifically to research abandoned railroads. Which you deleted because you didn't see them.

Have you been to Batavia?

Hey, thanks for trying to be a good editor, but I'm going to have to revert these. I've been everywhere in New York State, and if I add something, it should be there.

Thank you, yes, that is what I wanted. JOSM doesn't have it in its set of railway tags.

https://www.lrhs.com/milford-park-railway/ says that it's 18" gauge.

It's a scale model railroad. I'm not sure what the gauge or the scale is, because I didn't have a ruler and didn't see any cars, because it was overgrown and out of service.

I see from your other edits (all over the world) that it's very unlikely that you have been here. I have. So my edits should stay in place. Thankyouverymuch.

Do me a solid, and don't remove razed railways. They are there to show where a railway used to go, so that mappers doing field work can look to see if there are any traces left.

For example, I have been to Central Square twice now, and I didn't see that the NYO&W rails, nominally raze, ARE STILL THERE IN THE PAVEMENT.

So please stop it. You aren't improving OSM.

Yes. Obviously I was working on both houses and ponds. Thanks for catching an correcting this!

It's been a while since I bicycled it, but as I recall, there was a footway there. If you have more recent information, then go ahead and change it. Just leave the railbed separate from the trail through that section if you do.