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URL
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id#map=19/53.986065/-1.049651
How to reproduce the issue?
In the real world, something has been removed. It still exists in imagery. Naturally, I want to remove it from OSM, but I also want to leave something on that geometry so that armchair mappers don't "just add it back". An attempt to do this via a note tag results in an "error" (see below). In order to complete the edit I need to add some other nonsensical tags and remove them in another editor.
What should happen instead is that a "note" tag on its own should be valid, rather than having to add some garbage and remove it with another editor. See e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1313248451/history
Screenshot(s) or anything else?
Which deployed environments do you see the issue in?
Released version at openstreetmap.org/edit
What version numbers does this issue effect?
2.30.2
Which browsers are you seeing this problem on?
Firefox
I think the idea behind this warning is to encourage you to use was:highway=footway or some other lifecycle prefix, right?
The message is just not very helpful....
Exactly. Every element should have tags, even with disused:, abandoned: or was: prefixes.
Really? What would be appropriate for https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/637258230#map=15/54.35869/-0.94564 ?
I would agree that the use of lifecycle tags (e.g. abandoned:*, razed:*, was:*, not:* etc.) would be preferred for these.
