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

[80hnhtv4agou at bk.ru]

i would delete what i did, expanding on someone else edit,  but what about something like a road 
 
that was never built and was mapped 7 years ago, with an edit 1 year ago ?
  
>Sunday, May 24, 2020 11:39 PM -05:00 from Jack Armstrong <jacknstacy at sprynet.com>:
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>Greetings.
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>Recently, a user mapped “razed” railways inside a construction zone (link below). These rails had been removed by our local mappers since they don’t exist anymore. Using the latest imagery (Maxar), you can see the rails have been completely removed from “Project 70”, a $1.2 billion Denver-area transportation corridor construction project.
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>I think this mapper has good intentions, but what is the point of mapping something that does not exist? Doesn’t this clearly contradict the OSM Good Practice wiki in regards the sections, “Verifiability”, “Map what's on the ground” and “Don't map historic events and historic features”? The last section states, " Do not map objects if they do not exist currently ."
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>Should we tag (invisible) razed sidewalks? Should we leave (invisible) destroyed buildings in place, tag them as razed and then create new buildings on top of them?
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>https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/39.78016/-104.94562
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