[Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

[Richard Welty]

On 11/17/12 6:56 AM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         While doing the Maproulette, I came upon a large area east of 
> El Paso 
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.7234&lon=-106.1106&zoom=13) with 
> hundreds of neatly laid-out roads tagged "residential" that are only 
> weathered tracks. Apparently, there were plans to build extensive 
> suburban areas, but they never were built.
>         How should this be tagged?  Just make them all tracks?
>         Apologies if this has been discussed before
if they didn't exist, the highway=proposed would be ok.
but since they exist, i'd go with highway=track
if they never got signs, i'd remove the names, or change the tag to
name_proposed or something like that, but you can't really tell that
from the maproulette vantage point.

richard