Rail Trails and railway=abandoned
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March 8, 2026
Rail trails with route relations with railway=abandoned to denote a rail trail is not working. When the named “bike route” enters city streets or along side walks where the railroad never went this becomes and tagging nightmare.
I have had to remove railway=abandoned from a route relation in British Columbia and in New Hampshire where these were both issues. osm.org/note/5066887#map=15/41.40203/-73.62096
osm.org/note/4680502#map=15/49.49511/-121.22581
Can we find a better tags to mark bike routes with rail trail?
this is specific to route relations and not current tags for infrastructure, railway=abandoned still works for infrastructure
Yours in Mapping Natfoot
this is related to my other project on routing and bike routes. ask if you want to know more.
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