I agree with Graeme Wilson. OSM should not include non-existent roads. The only convincing argument I have seen put so far by the minority who want to show them is that it will save other mappers from wasted time. Given that mappers are the minority and people like Graeme in the majority I think it is there needs that should be given priority.
Further, there is still the unresolved problem of what to tag these roads. "Non-existent" is unhelpful and ambiguous as many people have pointed out here. As far as I am concerned "non-existent roads" are in the same category as childrens' "imaginary friends", important to the individual but not of much interest to anyone else. Let's face it. There is so much that really does exist left to be mapped we hardly need to put effort, particularly given the problems, into what does not. 2009/10/26 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> > 2009/10/25 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxi...@gmail.com>: > > It will of course be essential that these are not displayed in a > > misleading way (or not displayed at all) and are not suggested as > > possible routes. We do have a way of marking no through roads via the > > access=no tag so while whichever tag is chosen for nonexistent roads > > is being adopted worldwide, we can still ensure that there will not be > > any confusion. However, I'm not sure how that is displayed on the > > various outputs (such as the Garmin devices, the web page maps etc.). > > If they do appear we need to file bugs so that the parsing code is > fixed up to not show them :) > > The problem here isn't collecting data, it's making sure it doesn't > appear most of the time. Unlike raster images which display everything > collected, vector information can be selectively shown etc. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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