Talk:Limitations
Planned features
I'm aware that features that no longer exist should not be mapped in OpenStreetMap. I'd be interested to know what the guidelines and people's opinion are on mapping features that are still in the planning stages but haven't been built yet. As an example there's a lot of planned high speed rail lines in the United States that people have decided mapped. There obviously isn't anything on the ground to indicate the lines at all exist yet or being planned though, and sometimes rail lines can take years to build or just get canceled. So I wonder where the line (if any) should be between mapping something that is currently under construction versus mapping something that will be constructed in the feature, but most likely won't be. At least in the case of planned high speed rail in the United States. At the end of the day if OpenStreetMap isn't a historical map I don't see how it can be a future map either (whatever that means). --Adamant1 (talk) 05:33, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- This is kind of tricky and gray area. Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 11:10, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
API limitations
I think it would be interesting to list some limitations of the editing API and the Overpass API (e.g. query timeouts & max size).
I currently don't have time to look into that, but I might get back to it at some point in the future.