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<div>I would say that anyone has right to remove such objects.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am also unsure what would even be a correct tagging. never_existed:highway=*?<br></div><div><br></div><div>(sole reason for possible keeping would be danger of accidental mapping it, but<br></div><div>given that it never existed it should not appear on any aerial images)<br></div><div><br></div><div>May 25, 2020, 17:32 by talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div>? should a highway never built in 2011, mapped, that goes through a farm still be there even if tagged <br></div><div> <br></div><div><div>right, and if not who has a right to remove it ?<br></div><div> <br></div></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"><div>Monday, May 25, 2020 10:10 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org>:<br></div><div> <br></div><div id=""><div class=""><div><div id="style_15904194131917178336_BODY"><div class=""><div>May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8;padding-left: 10px;margin-left: 5px;" class=""><p>On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote:<br></p><blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em;border-left: #1010ff 2px solid;margin: 0"><div style="color:#000000; font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px"><div><span><span style="" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Why are railways given a special status?</span></span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="color:#000000; font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px"><div><span><span style="" class=""><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></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><span><span style="" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">Nothing is "approved"</span></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 style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8;padding-left: 10px;margin-left: 5px;" class=""><div style="color:#000000; font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px"><div><span><span style="" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared "deprecated".</span></span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div>This is true.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8;padding-left: 10px;margin-left: 5px;" class=""><div style="color:#000000; font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px"><div> <br></div><div><span><span style="" class=""><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></span><br></div><div><span><span style="" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif">that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that?</span></span></span><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects".<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8;padding-left: 10px;margin-left: 5px;" class=""><div style="color:#000000; font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px"><div> <br></div><div><span><span style="" class=""><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></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></div></div><div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>talk mailing list<br></div><div><a href="javascript:void(0)">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div data-signature-widget="container"><div data-signature-widget="content"><div> <br></div></div></div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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