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

[80hnhtv4agou at bk.ru]

it was tagged ( proposed ), and asphalt.
 
  
>Monday, May 25, 2020 11:56 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>:
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>I would say that anyone has right to remove such objects.
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>I am also unsure what would even be a correct tagging. never_existed:highway=*?
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>(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)
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>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:
>>>>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).
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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.
>>>>It is not even "forbidden" to use tags that someone has declared "deprecated".
>>>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?
>>>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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