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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 25, 2020, 09:47 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 25. May 2020, at 08:54, Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl> wrote:<br></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p>1. Live and let live - OSM has always been a broad church. It might not be your hobby, but it is their's. The bar to actively deleting other people's work should be set very high indeed.<br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1<br></div><div>I completely subscribe to this <br></div></blockquote><div>+1, but something that is 100% gone can be deleted.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have seen railway=abandoned mapped across open-pit mine that was there for 20 years.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There was zero chance of mappers recreating it (as oldest aerials will show open pit mine),<br></div><div>it was 100% gone (like embankments, railway station and dirt 20 m below).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I deleted it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Something that is fully, completely and totally gone can be deleted. If there are buildings<br></div><div>across former track of the railway and embankment is leveled then it can and should<br></div><div>be deleted.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If there are no traces whatsoever and you need old maps to map it then it is out of<br></div><div>scope of OSM and deleting it improves OpenStreetMap.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There was railway here:<br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Museum_in_Krakow-Main_Building,_1,_3Maja_Av,_Krakow,Poland.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Museum_in_Krakow-Main_Building,_1,_3Maja_Av,_Krakow,Poland.jpg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There are no traces whatsoever. It is not mapped, should not be mapped and<br></div><div>should be deleted if mapped.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have more doubts about cases where only earthworks remain (and are used for<br></div><div>cycleway/road/path). You can plausibly guess that railway was there but it is just a<br></div><div>guess and typically you need old maps to confirm that it was there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And in some cases such features look like former railway but that is not really true.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But something that is totally gone should be gone from OpenStreetMap (with exceptions<br></div><div>for objects marked as gone and temporarily not deleted to prevent incorrect remapping).<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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