<HTML><BODY><div><div><font color="#1181ff">i would delete what i did, expanding on someone else edit, </font><font color="#1181ff">but what about something like a road </font></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#1181ff;">that was never built and was mapped 7 years ago, with an edit 1 year ago ?</span><br> </div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;">Sunday, May 24, 2020 11:39 PM -05:00 from Jack Armstrong <jacknstacy@sprynet.com>:<br> <div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><style type="text/css"></style><div><div id="style_15903815820338210794_BODY"><div class="cl_458689"><style type="text/css">.cl_458689 DIV{
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}</style><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font size="2">Greetings.</font></span></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"> </p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font size="2">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.</font></span></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal; min-height:14px"> </p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning: none"><font size="2">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, "</font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);color: rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family: sans-serif;font-size: 14px;"><b>Do not map objects if they do not exist currently</b>."</span></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal; min-height:14px"> </p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning: none"><font size="2">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?</font></span></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal; min-height:14px"> </p><p style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Geneva; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="text-decoration: underline ;font-kerning: none"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><font size="2">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562</font></a></span></p><div style="font-size:13px"> </div><br> </div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="/compose?To=talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div><div data-signature-widget="container"><div data-signature-widget="content"><div> </div></div></div><div> </div></div></BODY></HTML>