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<p>On 2020-05-25 17:08, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:</p>
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<div>May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:</div>
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<p>On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote:</p>
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<div><span><span class="font" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Why are railways given a special status?</span></span></div>
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<div><span><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></div>
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<div>It is not really accurate - there is plenty of forbidden things (like running</div>
<div>imports without discussion, we have tags that are silently removed by</div>
<div>editors like iD and JOSM).</div>
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<div>Doing imports without discussion more about the process, and less about the details of the result. An import can be declared "bad" for many reasons.</div>
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<div>If iD and JOSM remove certain tags when they are encountered, that is different from removing whole objects.</div>
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<div>We have voted on tags that are described as "approved".</div>
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<div>Even if "<span><span><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.</div>
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<div>Can you name one tag that is "forbidden"? Does that mean a standing instruction to all mappers to remove it whenever it is found, or a license to do a seek-and-destroy across the whole database? Or does "forbidden" not quite mean "may not appear in OSM"? "Frowned upon" possibly.</div>
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<div>Is there any case of a whole class of objects being removed from OSM on the grounds </div>
<div><span><span class="font" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that?</span></span></div>
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<div>Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects".</div>
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<div>Class, category, whatever... A subset of the objects in the OSM data with common characteristics.</div>
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<div><span><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></div>
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<div>We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are</div>
<div>out of scope.</div>
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<div>Where is that written down? What classes and types of things have been declared out of scope? Any record of a transparent process that led to that?</div>
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