i would delete what i did, expanding on someone else edit, but what about something like a road that was never built and was mapped 7 years ago, with an edit 1 year ago ? >Sunday, May 24, 2020 11:39 PM -05:00 from Jack Armstrong ><[email protected]>: > >Greetings. > >Recently, a user mapped “razed” railways inside a construction zone (link >below). These rails had been removed by our local mappers since they don’t >exist anymore. Using the latest imagery (Maxar), you can see the rails have >been completely removed from “Project 70”, a $1.2 billion Denver-area >transportation corridor construction project. > >I think this mapper has good intentions, but what is the point of mapping >something that does not exist? Doesn’t this clearly contradict the OSM Good >Practice wiki in regards the sections, “Verifiability”, “Map what's on the >ground” and “Don't map historic events and historic features”? The last >section states, " Do not map objects if they do not exist currently ." > >Should we tag (invisible) razed sidewalks? Should we leave (invisible) >destroyed buildings in place, tag them as razed and then create new buildings >on top of them? > >https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562 > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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