I would say that anyone has right to remove such objects. I am also unsure what would even be a correct tagging. never_existed:highway=*?
(sole reason for possible keeping would be danger of accidental mapping it, but given that it never existed it should not appear on any aerial images) May 25, 2020, 17:32 by talk@openstreetmap.org: > ? should a highway never built in 2011, mapped, that goes through a farm > still be there even if tagged > > right, and if not who has a right to remove it ? > > >> Monday, May 25, 2020 10:10 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk >> <talk@openstreetmap.org>: >> >> May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: >> >>> >>> On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Why are railways given a special status? >>>> >>> Nobody gives anything a status in OSM. Nothing is "approved" so nothing is >>> "forbidden" either. >>> >> It is not really accurate - there is plenty of forbidden things (like running >> imports without discussion, we have tags that are silently removed by >> editors like iD and JOSM). >> >> We have voted on tags that are described as "approved". >> >> Even if ">> Nothing is "approved">> " is true it does not mean that nothing >> is forbidden. >> >> And other ways of giving various things various kinds of status. >> >>> It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared >>> "deprecated". >>> >> This is true. >> >>> >>> Is there any case of a whole class of objects being removed from OSM on the >>> grounds >>> that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that? >>> >> Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects". >> >>> >>> If we are looking to set a precedent for that it would probably be wiser to >>> pick on a less controversial and emotive subject. >>> >>> >> We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are >> out of scope. >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org <javascript:void(0)> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > > >
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