[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 12/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, don't mark them as normal roads if they are in a
> degraded state.

It's worst than that in a lot of cases, they were gazetted, but never built. From discussions on talk-au list today a lot of mapping companies refer to these as "untrafficable roads". They either keep them in their DB to prevent re-importing them, or keep them as a method of copyright protection.