This is your opinion, which you are seeking to impose on everybody. Somewhat selectively it would appear, as you are not going to burn your fingers on highway=proposed. I guess you will be deleting the HS2 (proposed UK high speed rail line) route as well, right? If you would like to, you will find it here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1986960 Go on, I dare you. On 2015-08-29 09:48, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:18:17 -0400 > Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > >> But what gives them the right to delete things that other people CAN >> see and DO want to have in OSM? > > Because mapping thoroughly destroyed objects that no longer exist (like > rail lines where even earthworks are levelled and houses are built over > place where railway used to be - something defended in this thread by > some) is a dangerous precedent that would lead to a complete mess (like > mapping destroyed and no longer existing objects and slapping end_date > on them or mapping objects that never existed and pretending that > putting start_date on them makes it OK). > > Mapping proposed and potential (so not existing, unverifiable and > likely to never appear) is already major problem in my region. > > Adding to that objects that no longer exist is an extremely poor idea. > > Therefore I will delete any object that no longer exists or never > existed (after communication with mapper or other method to verify > whatever I am mistaken, with exception of highway=proposed). > > It is important to avoid treating mapping completely destroyed railways > as OK - we already have terrible highway=proposed (mapped in some > valid places and many where projects are pure political fiction or > outright SF - like highway=proposed that used to be mapped across > Boering Strait*). > > * Yes, I deleted it. I am not OK with mapping "abandoned railroads" (as > in "traces of it are present") but railways where only trace is > presence on old documents should not be mapped. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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