Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > Now it is done with railways and may be stopped. But if > completely dismantled railways are not deleted from OSM > what would stop somebody interested in mapping completely > destroyed buildings, canals etc?
You're absolutely right. We should also stop mapping bus routes. These are often not supported by on-the-ground evidence, just by patterns of usage, and that might lead someone to map (say) the functionally equivalent corridors most often used by taxis or Uber vehicles. We should stop mapping official council boundaries. These aren't on the ground, and they are just administrative delineations of certain services. What would stop someone taking this and mapping pizza companies' delivery boundaries? We should stop adding postcodes. These usually aren't on the ground and they are just the reference system of one private company[1] among many. Someone might add the internal reference identifiers used by utility companies or indeed any other company with assets to manage. And we should stop making hypothetical points on the mailing list, because what would stop someone interested in applying those hypothetical points to other bits of OSM? Richard [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail#Privatisation -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Re-Abandoned-Rails-tp5852866p5854391.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk