Proposal:Deprecating demolished railway tags

Deprecating demolished railway tags
Proposal status:	Canceled (inactive)
Proposed by:	Ewrt1
Draft started:	2024-02-26
RFC start:	2024-02-26

Proposal

This proposal aims to deprecate all Demolished Railway tags, including railway=razed, railway=dismantled and railway=historic, in favor of adding the features in Open Historical Map.

Rationale

There is already lots of dicussion regarding deprecating these tags, and there is a Verifiability tagging standard in OSM. It's becoming a popular topic.

Tagging

This proposal deprecates railway=razed, railway=dismantled and railway=historic.

Features/Pages affected

• Demolished Railway
• railway=razed, railway=dismantled and railway=historic pages

External discussions

See Demolished Railway#Other discussions.

Comments

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