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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oct 13, 2020, 01:39 by andrew.harvey4@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">For me "there simply is not enough community consensus to move forward with the change." is the issue because you can effectively lock out certain valid things from being mapped and consumed in a standard way because there is no large majority in favour.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Well, if there is no agreement there will be no "standard" way.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That does not make mapping or using data impossible.<br></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forest">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forest</a> <br></div><div>or failed attempts to deprecate highway=bus_stop<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is kind of annoying/confusing but it is not stopping people from<br></div><div>mapping areas of trees or bus stops.<br></div> </body>
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