[OSM-talk] Should we map things that do not exist?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.smale at xs4all.nl:

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> On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote:
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>> Why are railways given a special status?
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> Nobody gives anything a status in OSM. Nothing is "approved" so nothing is "forbidden" either.
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It is not really accurate - there is plenty of forbidden things (like running
imports without discussion, we have tags that are silently removed by
editors like iD and JOSM).

We have voted on tags that are described as "approved".

Even if "Nothing is "approved"" is true it does not mean that nothing is forbidden.

And other ways of giving various things various kinds of status.

> It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared "deprecated".
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This is true.

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> Is there any case of a whole class of objects being removed from OSM on the grounds 
> that they "do not belong"? Who would burn their fingers on that?
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Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects".

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> If we are looking to set a precedent for that it would probably be wiser to pick on a less controversial and emotive subject.
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We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are
out of scope.
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