<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font size="2">I agree with </font><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">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.</span><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">I don't see the need to map something that does not actually exist.</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Jack Armstrong</div><div>chachafish<br><br><blockquote style="font-size: 10pt; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
<br>Sent: May 25, 2020 4:15 PM
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<br>Cc: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz@tutanota.com>
<br>Subject: Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 25, 2020, 23:50 by fernando.trebien@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>then it depends<br></div><div>on whether the former railway has significance in some other less<br></div><div>obvious way (e.g. being part of an administrative boundary)<br></div></blockquote><div>This is going too far. Glaciers left clear marks in many countries, but<br></div><div>mapping glaciers of last glacial maximum[1] is out of scope of OSM.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If sole trace of railway is that administrative boundary matches its course,<br></div><div>then it should be deleted.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum</a><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>
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