[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 08/23/2015 02:27 AM, Balaco Baco wrote:
> I'm sorry. But this is just a stupid thing to do. To have no data and to
> have the most recently obtained data are two very different things.

I think you're arguing a different case here - one that is also
interesting but about something else, and that's "negative mapping".

There is indeed a difference between "a road that doesn't have a name in
OSM" (the name might simply not have been surveyed yet) and "a road that
does not have a name in the real world".

How to signal the fact that the road doesn't have a name, is indeed
something that people think about, and it is useful information not
least because it keeps mappers from unnecessarily trying to find out the
correct name ;)

The fact "there is no railroad here", however, is not something that I
would consider useful; because where would it end? I'm standing at a
lakeshore - there's no railway here, also there's no forest here, and no
building, and no rugby pitch, no telephone booth, and no power lines.
Certainly you're not suggesting we map all these negatives.

Bye
Frederik

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