[Tagging] Paper streets?

[Richard Welty]

On 10/19/10 4:22 PM, john at jfeldredge.com wrote:
> Some of the folks in this discussion seem to be assuming that, if a street is shown on plans but has not yet been built at the time that an OSM mapper marks the locations of the existing street, this guarantees that the street will never be built in the future.  I was not aware that having OSM map streets was the kiss of death for any further development.
>
um, no. i think we're assuming (with some justification)
that proposals do sometimes die, or get reshaped, and
unless a mapper is actively tracking proposals they enter,
the map can end up with a surprising number of dead
proposals.

roads under construction sometimes end up going away;
i've been watching a development make agonizingly slow
progress nearby for several years. the roads show, as rough
dirt, in USGS aerial imagery from 3 years ago, they're still not
paved. very limited activity is going on, and if the developer
goes bust, the whole thing could end up slipping backwards
so easily... i've put them in as highway=construction, but i
also plan to keep an eye on the whole thing as i suspect the
developer is in a borderline financial state.

richard