[OSM-talk] Out of Service Roads

[Robert Kaiser]

Clifford Snow schrieb:
> How do you tag roads that are out of service. We have a section of Widbey
> Island that was wiped out by a landslide. It will be out of service for
> some time.

If you re-tag it some other way, you should also tag it with a note 
explaining that it's wiped out by a landslide. If you think of removing 
the section of that way completely, it might even be worth to instead 
just remove the highway tag and add that note tag.
There are cases where people see the map, think "I thought there was a 
road?" and then end up re-mapping it using some satellite or aerial 
imagery where it's (still) visible. Doing the note makes it less likely 
they do something like that.

Robert Kaiser