[OSM-newbies] a reminder for armchair mappers

[Richard Welty]

On 12/6/13 1:30 PM, Mike N wrote:
> On 12/6/2013 11:08 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> this isn't the first time i've been through this; a year or so back
>> a couple of armchair mappers repeatedly changed a part of Troy
>> to match obsolete imagery and i kept having to ask them not to
>> and put back in the recent changes. i now put README tags on
>> the ways but if i delete something i have no place to put a
>> README tag.
>
>  Some crazy ideas:
>
>  highway:disused=slip_ramp
the thing is, there's no trace of the ramp left, so disused is
probably the wrong qualifier.
>  draw a circle around the area with a note or readme
i've done this before for areas which were reconstructed, it's an
approach. if you don't otherwise tag the polygon then the
rendering engines by and large ignore it.

richard


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