Incorrect Railroad Data on the map in Canada

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Incorrect Railroad Data on the map in Canada #196

Open pheersink opened 3 months ago

pheersink commented 3 months ago

Railroad data in Canada appears incorrect or out of date. Railroads that were once in service and have long been discontinued as showing up on the map. Take, for example, Creemore, ON. The railroad shown in the Overture data was ripped up in the early 1960s.

Data viewer says the data is coming from OpenStreetMap but OpenStreetMap doesn't show this railroad. Better source for railroad data for Canada would be the National Railway Network

brad-richardson commented 3 months ago

It looks like this railway is marked as abandoned in OSM (thanks to @PascalClarysse-TomTom for identifying this). We unfortunately don't currently have flags or classes defined for rail to differentiate this. That is a current area of interest for us, let me know what other aspects for rails are interesting for you here or add them to this discussion: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/discussions/262