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<div>May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote:<br></p><blockquote style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" type="cite"><div style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Why are railways given a special status?</span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Nobody gives anything a status in OSM. Nothing is "approved" so nothing is "forbidden" either.</span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div>It is not really accurate - there is plenty of forbidden things (like running<br></div><div>imports without discussion, we have tags that are silently removed by<br></div><div>editors like iD and JOSM).<br></div><div><br></div><div>We have voted on tags that are described as "approved".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Even if "<span style=""><span style="" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Nothing is "approved"</span></span></span>" is true it does not mean that nothing is forbidden.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And other ways of giving various things various kinds of status.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared "deprecated".</span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div>This is true.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div> <br></div><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Is there any case of a whole class of objects being removed from OSM on the grounds </span></span><br></div><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that?</span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects".<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div> <br></div><div><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">If we are looking to set a precedent for that it would probably be wiser to pick on a less controversial and emotive subject.</span></span><br></div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><div>We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are<br></div><div>out of scope.<br></div> </body>
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