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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I would say that anyone has right to remove such objects.

I am also unsure what would even be a correct tagging. never_existed:highway=*?

(sole reason for possible keeping would be danger of accidental mapping it, but
given that it never existed it should not appear on any aerial images)

May 25, 2020, 17:32 by talk at openstreetmap.org:

> ? should a highway never built in 2011, mapped, that goes through a farm still be there even if tagged 
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> right, and if not who has a right to remove it ?
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>> Monday, May 25, 2020 10:10 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>:
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>> 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).
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>> We have voted on tags that are described as "approved".
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>> Even if ">> Nothing is "approved">> " is true it does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
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>> And other ways of giving various things various kinds of status.
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>>> 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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