Dear Leen Kievit,

your additions of all kinds of historic railway infrastructure to OSM has been met with criticism.

Please immediately stop adding anything to OSM which is not visible on the ground. This includes, but is not limited to “railway=razed”, or any relations consisting of “razed” or “abandoned” railway tracks, or any relations with members in a role of “historic”. Specifically, please stop creating relations that collect razed or abandoned railway tracks, because it is likely that these tracks will be removed from OSM in the near future.

OpenStreetMap is not suitable as a map backend for wikidata entries about abandoned, razed, or overbuilt railway infrastructure. You will have to find another way to build maps for wikidata entries about historic infrastructure.

Other mappers have pointed out these issues to you but it seems you have not taken that seriously. Please do take other mappers seriously when they tell you that what you’re doing is problematic.

Thank you
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group Ticket#2021092310000178