On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 +0000 Gerd Petermann <gpetermann_muenc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > forgive me if this was discussed before: > There seems to be a need to map highways which do not exist. > I understand the idea that we map highway=proposed / highway=planned > as this might be used to visualize a plan, I can also understand that > we have tags like highway=dismantled and highway=razed (which seem to > mean the same) but why do we have ways with > highway=x-residential , highway=unbuilt , highway=neverbuilt, and > several more with similar meaning ? > They all seem to describe ways which where once added as normal > highway=* to the database and later someone found out that there is > no highway, but did not dare to remove the way. > > Is that meant to document something important? > > Gerd > Purpose of such objects is to ensure that armchair mappers will not remap it again. Object with note=* seem better than highway=neverbuilt. In case of low risk of remapping by armachair mappers such ways may be safely deleted. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
