[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/12 Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>:
> except on paper. the road reserve may exist but it could be completely
> overgrown with trees, or be impassable with natural features - a cliff, a
> water feature

you could map this as track and tracktype=grade5, or invent a tag for
even more overgrown remnants. By this you can have the information on
the OSM-Map, that there once was a road which is now only the road
reserve.

> and its even more annoying to be caught the next time.

s.above

> we are considering marking roads as impassable, having a "barrier" to their
> use or similar markers which may not ever be rendered but would mark the
> problem in the database

yes, don't mark them as normal roads if they are in a degraded state.

cheers,
Martin