I believe at some point there was, or at least there was discussion of implementing, a way to mark areas where the aerial imagery is out-of-date. Unfortunately I'm drawing a blank on any further development from there, but that would seem to be the best solution all-around (having cleaned up a similar issue in my area a few weeks ago).
Chris On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]>wrote: > i'm thinking maybe we need an agreed upon way of marking these > areas so that the usual editors (id, potlatch2, josm) can flag them > as places where aerial imagery is out of date. > > also, Mike N had suggested highway:disused. instead, maybe > something like highway:removed=yes would work. > > i'd recommend highway:removed over highway=removed > because some rendering engines will display a line for > highway=removed, but ignore highway:removed because > they don't recognize the tag. a local mapper here in Albany > had added highway=proposed for a few proposals dating > back to the 50s and 60s that will never be built. i changed > them to highway=unbuilt, but that didn't make them go > away, so they are now all highway:unbuilt=motorway (or > whatever.) i left them in so they didn't get put back in using > inappropriate tagging. > > richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Chris Lawrence <[email protected]> Website: http://www.cnlawrence.com/
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