[talk-au] Mapping non-existent streets?

[Adrian Hobbs]

I am but only an occasional editor of OSM, but it seems to me that issues like this need to be addressed in some agreed and co-ordinated process, rather than ad-hoc. With rising water levels and global warming this is going to become a major issue. Geographical features are disappearing (islands, glaciers) or drastically altered (coastlines, rivers, lakes). Along with this are human infrastructure losses. 
Discussions like this re a single street and a few houses will be occuring in thousands of localities around the world. A standard approach needs to be sorted.
As an aside, what is done now in places that regularly lose chunks of coastline e.g. bits of California, western UK, etc. Or drastically altered after earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, major landslides, etc.
Cheers
Adrian Hobbs

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On 1 May 2021, 10:49, at 10:49, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I agree with cleary, to map per what's on the ground.
>
>The houses can still be mapped with addr:street=Esplanade even without
>the
>street.
>
>razed:highway=residential or removed:highway=residential I have no
>strong
>view on for this situation.
>
>On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 09:56, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 09:37, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'd say that we map what we can confirm "on the ground". The
>inclusion of
>>> non-existent features in OSM is of no help to anyone.  In rural
>areas,
>>> there are whole villages in which plans were approved and gazetted
>but
>>> never constructed or, having once existed, have disappeared as the
>>> population disappeared - google maps occasionally includes some of
>these
>>> streets but we shouldn't.
>>>
>>
>> So don't do anything about it - just mark the addresses as The
>Esplanade &
>> leave it at that?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Graeme
>>
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