Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?

[Jack Armstrong]

I agree with Mateusz Konieczny. If there is some vestige of the object remaining, then mapping it in some way seems reasonable. But, if the railway, building, highway, etc., are completely removed and there are absolutely no visible remains of what was once there, it can be removed.

I don't see the need to map something that does not actually exist.

- Jack Armstrong

chachafish

-----Original Message-----
From: Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Sent: May 25, 2020 4:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?

May 25, 2020, 23:50 by fernando.treb...@gmail.com:

then it depends

on whether the former railway has significance in some other less

obvious way (e.g. being part of an administrative boundary)

This is going too far. Glaciers left clear marks in many countries, but

mapping glaciers of last glacial maximum[1] is out of scope of OSM.

If sole trace of railway is that administrative boundary matches its course,

then it should be deleted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum

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