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

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? should a highway never built in 2011, mapped, that goes through a farm still be there even if tagged 
 
right, and if not who has a right to remove it ?
  
>Monday, May 25, 2020 10:10 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>:
> 
>May 25, 2020, 16:48 by colin.smale at xs4all.nl:
>>On 2020-05-25 16:20, Jack Armstrong wrote:
>>>Why are railways given a special status?
>>Nobody gives anything a status in OSM. Nothing is "approved" so nothing is "forbidden" either.
>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".
>This is true.
>> 
>>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?
>Depends on what you mean by "whole class of objects".
>> 
>>If we are looking to set a precedent for that it would probably be wiser to pick on a less controversial and emotive subject.
>> 
>We have precedent that entire classes and types of things are
>out of scope.
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