Thanks for keeping it real. 🙂 Working with Propsman is a little bit like working with the 10th Dr. when he’s lost his sonic screwdriver…

Sutekh would rid the earth of those mini tracks!

OSM is truly huge, you can’t get it perfect for the entire globe. We can try though.

Actually OpenStreetMap will continue to provide a “planet download” of our entire dataset as a snapshot taken from before the data redactions, and released (of course) under the old CC-BY-SA2.0 license. e.g. right now you could grab a planet download: http://planet.openstreetmap.org from the beginning of this month and it will have all the data. There’s no legal problem with data users doing that at all, indeed for many uses this would be our recommendation until the community has had a little time to patch up some new gaps in the data.

Going forwards, future snapshots (starting from some time soon) will be released under the new ODbL license, and these have some patches of data redacted, although the community is already filling in these gaps quite quickly.

Data users are not legally able to blend data from before and after the license change.

There is definitely the chance that we are screwing up our OSM interpretation! That’s for me to look at in the next import. But people misuse the keys at times too; platform as track only looks bad if the railway has a real symbol – if it’s just a brown line, it’s hard to tell.

Not legally.

A OSM recut would be very VERY welcome as I know I’ve personally added in hundreds (*no exaggeration) of decent sized water bodies over the past months which were not originally in the database and therefore aren’t in XP10… many of these lakes and ponds have designated seaplane bases on them, which are currently landlocked in the sim.

Here’s to hoping a recut, or some method for users to do it themselves (*without a PhD) can come about in the near future. Here’s one vote from a user who would *greatly* appreciate it – primarily for the improvements in shorelines and water!

Sorry if this is obvious, but … are you by chance treating every way element with a railway key as a train track? There’s quite a bit of other railway infrastructure using that key, too, including railway=platform and railway=station.