On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 15:10, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > sent from a phone > > > On 9. Jul 2019, at 15:57, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Where an object is no longer physically present, such as a telephone > booth that has > > been removed, then removed:amenity=telephone. > > while disused and abandoned features make sense and can be observed, may > help for orientation or might be reactivated, Not really. They don't get rendered (on standard carto). So they don't help anyone orient themselves. The underlying physical object does, but not its prior usage (unless the old signage is still there), but that still doesn't help because it's not rendered. > the same is not true for “removed”. There may be exceptional situations > where it could still make sense (like you mention, e.g. to prevent people > from recreating them from outdated aerial imagery), but I would not expect > an atm or a telephone booth to be worth of mapping them after they have > been removed. > As with disused: and abandoned:, the only real purpose is to prevent mappers re-instating the object based upon out-of-date information. As it happens, I recently removed two phone boxes with removed:amenity=telephone. Because they were in front of a building of which many different images exist on the net. Such as this one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guildhall,_Cardigan.jpg It's in a tourist town and it's a building a lot of people take pictures of (partly because of the Russian cannon). Many of those pictures include those two phone booths which are no longer there. Definitely worth mapping with the removed prefix, because any mapper coming across one of those many photographs is likely to add the omitted phone booths. It's far less likely that somebody would reinstate a removed ATM because there are unlikely to be many photographs of it floating around the net But it does no harm to turn amenity=atm into removed:amenity=atm, so I wouldn't object to anybody doing so. -- Paul
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