[mkgmap-dev] change handling of railway=abandoned

Tue Jan 21 16:26:34 GMT 2020

I think part of the problem is that railway=abandonded is not a
statement either way about

  whether it is reasonably physically traversable on foot

  whether there is any right of access

so I guess I don't see why a way with railway=abandonded and no highway
tags should be presumed routable in the first place.

I guess the real issue is that garmin thinks it is?

(Also, for US people, note that OSM's definition of abandoned is
different from the US definition.  The US definition is a legal thing,
and some rails that are US-abandoned have tracks present.  Nothing to do
in mkgmap, but if you are a US railfan and not an OSM expert, you'll
assume wrong.)