On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > I was reacting to the fact that some people were defining paper streets as > "streets that haven't been built and never will be", rather than the > definition used at the start of the discussion, "streets that haven't been > built yet."
Neither of those is quite correct. A paper street is an unoccupied right-of-way that is recognized by the local government in the same way as it recognizes the right-of-way of a public street. In effect, one of the two steps in creating a public roadway has been taken, but the other has not. (Sometimes the order is reversed; a road may be built on private land and then deeded to the government.) It generally has no "on the ground" existence, but is as real as a city boundary or the edge of an undeveloped nature reserve. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
