[Tagging] Paper streets?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:05 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry, overlooked that. If there are no "current" plans to build them,
> what are the plans about? If they are planned to be build sometime,
> they would qualify for proposed, if they are not intented to be build,
> don't map them (at least not in OSM).

I don't know how it works in Germany, but here when a developer wants
to develop a large piece of land he has a subdivision plat made up and
files it with the government
(http://or.occompt.com/recorder/eagleweb/viewDoc.jsp?exnode=1911P00D143).
The plat shows the arrangement of all the lots that will be
individually sold, as well as the public roads between the lots. Even
if the development is not completely built out, the unbuilt portions
remain on the books, and can be restarted at any time. Any of these
streets can be opened to the public in the future without any
right-of-way taking. In fact, it takes an official act of government
to vacate and abandon the platted road, whether or not any
construction was done. Older subdivisions will have grid patterns of
these "paper streets":
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.400036,-81.501866&spn=0.003954,0.0103&z=18
(you can see the lot lines and platted streets here; this is the plat
linked above)
while in newer subdivisions the roads are usually not in such geometric order.