Let me know if you need any help. *Regards,*
*Hans* *http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13>* On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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