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<div>Apr 29, 2021, 09:39 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 29 Apr 2021, at 09:34, Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is fine to map area:highway, it is fine to delete area:highway<br></div><div>if you are updating crossing geometry and you are not interested<br></div><div>in fiddling with areas of roads and footways.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I dissent, if you are updating a place where area:highway is mapped you don’t have the right to delete it if you are not interested in highway areas.<br></div></blockquote><div>Fact that someone mapped something in extreme detail should not mean that others <br></div><div>are obligated to maintain it forever.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note that blocking deletion of completely outdated data would have two main effects<br></div><div>- larger opposition to micromapping (as it may get stuck forever)<br></div><div>- more outdated data known to be outdated<br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, as author of some area:highway areas (and even actual data consumer of that,<br></div><div>though just in few locations for one-off projects): it is fine to delete my area:highway once <br></div><div>it will become completely outdated<br></div><div><br></div><div>And the same applies also for bus lines, turn lane tagging, lane tagging...<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is fine to map bus lines, but it is also fine to delete utterly outdated relations.<br></div> </body>
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