[Talk-us] Ghost suburbs

[Kristian M Zoerhoff]

highway=track is fine if the road is open to the public, but quite often incomplete subdivisions are not.

Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

>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.


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