[Tagging] WG: how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?

[Hans De Kryger]

Thanks for the examples, i definitely disagree with both examples. Makes no
sense to have those at all to me. In my opinion they need to be
reverted/deleted.

*Regards,*

*Hans*

*http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13>*

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Gerd Petermann <
GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Oops, forgot to set the list on cc
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> *Von:* Gerd Petermann
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 16. Oktober 2015 07:21
> *An:* Hans De Kryger
> *Betreff:* AW: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?
>
>
> Example:
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/5987185
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> which is just the first best from 130 "highway=unbuilt" ways,
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> Its history shows that it was imported in 2007.
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>
> Just a few m south is another one:
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> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/199739291>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/199739291
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> which doesn't have a long history but seems to be
>
> exactly like it.
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>
> Gerd
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> *Von:* Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 16. Oktober 2015 01:09
> *An:* OpenStreetMap
> *Cc:* Gerd Petermann
> *Betreff:* Re: [Tagging] how to tag a "highway" that doesn't exist?
>
>
> Do you have any examples?
> On Oct 15, 2015 12:27 PM, "Mateusz Konieczny" <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:35:08 +0000
>> Gerd Petermann <gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > forgive me if this was discussed before:
>> > There seems to be a need to map highways which do not exist.
>> > I understand the idea that we map highway=proposed / highway=planned
>> > as this might be used to visualize a plan, I can also understand that
>> > we have tags like highway=dismantled and highway=razed (which seem to
>> > mean the same) but why do we have ways with
>> > highway=x-residential , highway=unbuilt ,  highway=neverbuilt, and
>> > several more with similar meaning ?
>> > They all seem to describe ways which where once added as normal
>> > highway=* to the database and later someone found out that there is
>> > no highway, but did not dare to remove the way.
>> >
>> > Is that meant to document something important?
>> >
>> > Gerd
>> >
>>
>> Purpose of such objects is to ensure that armchair mappers will not
>> remap it again. Object with note=* seem better than highway=neverbuilt.
>>
>> In case of low risk of remapping by armachair mappers such ways may be
>> safely deleted.
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