? should a highway never built in 2011, mapped, that goes through a farm still be there even if tagged right, and if not who has a right to remove it ? >Monday, May 25, 2020 10:10 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk ><[email protected]>: > >May 25, 2020, 16:48 by [email protected]: >>On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote: >>>Why are railways given a special status? >>Nobody gives anything a status in OSM. Nothing is "approved" so nothing is >>"forbidden" either. >It is not really accurate - there is plenty of forbidden things (like running >imports without discussion, we have tags that are silently removed by >editors like iD and JOSM). > >We have voted on tags that are described as "approved". > >Even if " Nothing is "approved" " is true it does not mean that nothing is >forbidden. > >And other ways of giving various things various kinds of status. >>It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared "deprecated". >This is true. >> >>Is there any case of a whole class of objects being removed from OSM on the >>grounds >>that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that? >Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects". >> >>If we are looking to set a precedent for that it would probably be wiser to >>pick on a less controversial and emotive subject. >> >We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are >out of scope. >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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