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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 14, 2020, 15:53 by forums@david-woolley.me.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 14/08/2020 12:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote:<br></div><blockquote>If signage on the ground is gone or never existed then route relation should not be mapped in OSM*.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the long term, this could make OSM useless for motor traffic as there is a general policy of decluttering signs. One of the arguments for that is that everyone uses satellite navigators, so they don't need the signs. I think is also used as an argument for why it can take councils years to fix missing street name signs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If OSM relies on on the ground signage, when the authorities rely on virtual signage in online maps, it could lose a lot of roads!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At least in Poland it is purely theoretical issue while problem of nonexisting/proposed/gone<br></div><div>route relations cluttering map is real (local governments and organizations keep creating various<br></div><div>routes and later fail to maintain them).<br></div> </body>
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