Hi all, I've contacted a few mappers and it seems that there is a need to keep some of the ways for the reason described by Mateusz below.
Now, as so many before, I try to find a good tag to express this. Using a line with only a note tag is no good idea as QA tools will not like them. IMHO the only already used tag which looks acceptable for this is highway=none in combination with a note saying why the way is no highway maybe combined with an explicit tag mapping_error=yes Does that make sense? Gerd Mateusz Konieczny-2 wrote > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 +0000 > Gerd Petermann < > gpetermann_muenchen@ > > 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 > Tagging@ > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/how-to-tag-a-highway-that-doesn-t-exist-tp5857111p5857582.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
