Re: [Tagging] Mapping freeway stub ends?

2017-02-28 Thread John F. Eldredge
In some cases, the distinction between "abandoned" and "on indefinite hold" can be a bit blurry. One ring road here in Nashville, TN, USA was left in an incomplete state for about twenty years before the politicians finally allocated the money, and the last segment of the road was built. On

Re: [Tagging] Potential proposal for more detail in old_ref=*?

2017-02-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-02-27 23:21 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm : > For OpenStreetMap, one key component of "conflict avoidance" is our rule > of on-the-ground verifiability. With some very well defined exceptions > (e.g. administrative boundaries), we only map things that yuo can verify > by going there and looking. So

Re: [Tagging] Potential proposal for more detail in old_ref=*?

2017-02-28 Thread Richard
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:46:45PM -0500, Albert Pundt wrote: > The old_ref=* key seems to be used a lot for any previous designation of a > road, even decades before. Often a road will have had different > designations over the years. For example, I-676 in Philadelphia was > initially designated I