Thanks for the examples, i definitely disagree with both examples. Makes no sense to have those at all to me. In my opinion they need to be reverted/deleted.
*Regards,* *Hans* *http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13>* On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Gerd Petermann < [email protected]> wrote: > > Oops, forgot to set the list on cc > > ------------------------------ > *Von:* Gerd Petermann > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 16. Oktober 2015 07:21 > *An:* Hans De Kryger > *Betreff:* AW: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist? > > > Example: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/5987185 > > which is just the first best from 130 "highway=unbuilt" ways, > > Its history shows that it was imported in 2007. > > > Just a few m south is another one: > > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/199739291> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/199739291 > > which doesn't have a long history but seems to be > > exactly like it. > > > Gerd > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *Von:* Hans De Kryger <[email protected]> > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 16. Oktober 2015 01:09 > *An:* OpenStreetMap > *Cc:* Gerd Petermann > *Betreff:* Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist? > > > Do you have any examples? > On Oct 15, 2015 12:27 PM, "Mateusz Konieczny" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 +0000 >> Gerd Petermann <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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