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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/5/20 2:37 pm, Jack Armstrong
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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>
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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>
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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>
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style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none"><a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font size="2">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562</font></a></span></p>
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<p>Advise them to enter the historic railway into OHM ... or any
historic object for that matter. This satisfies them that the
object is mapped and frees OSM from it. <br>
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