[Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

[Richard Welty]

i'm thinking maybe we need an agreed upon way of marking these
areas so that the usual editors (id, potlatch2, josm) can flag them
as places where aerial imagery is out of date.

also, Mike N had suggested highway:disused. instead, maybe
something like highway:removed=yes would work.

i'd recommend highway:removed over highway=removed
because some rendering engines will display a line for
highway=removed, but ignore highway:removed because
they don't recognize the tag. a local mapper here in Albany
had added highway=proposed for a few proposals dating
back to the 50s and 60s that will never be built.  i changed
them to highway=unbuilt, but that didn't make them go
away, so they are now all highway:unbuilt=motorway (or
whatever.) i left them in so they didn't get put back in using
inappropriate tagging.

richard


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