[Tagging] Paper streets?

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Tue Oct 19 22:47:26 BST 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/19 Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>:
>> Neither of those is quite correct. A paper street is an unoccupied
>> right-of-way that is recognized by the local government in the same
>> way as it recognizes the right-of-way of a public street.
>
> that's why I would map them. But I still don't see the difference
> between a proposed road and a paper road (or why a "paper road" can't
> be mapped as highway=proposed).

By that definition, I don't see why it can't be mapped as highway=path
or highway=track (or, I guess in some cases, highway=swamp).  If it's
a recognized right of way, then it's not proposed, it's actual.



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