[Tagging] Lifecycle concepts, "REMOVED"

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Wed Jan 28 21:57:17 UTC 2015


On January 28, 2015 7:09:01 AM CST, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> On 28/01/2015 13:05, Richard Welty wrote:
> >
> > i changed them to highway:unbuilt, rather than deleting them so
> > that they would stop rendering and wouldn't get added back in later.
> >
> 
> I guess that that makes sense here in a "fix the mapper" kind of way 
> (I've certainly done similar things), but generally I wouldn't have 
> thought that things that were once proposed but are now never going to
> 
> be built belonged in OSM at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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Well, you also have the status "proposed, but no start date set", which would fit some subdivision maps I have seen. I am not sure how one would tag that.


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