On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, John Smith<delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This would lead to massive amounts of historic information >> into the >> future - i.e. nothing that has been correctly mapped need >> ever be >> deleted. > > Even so, this would be a minority of data, the majority of roads rarely if > ever change. New roads get added, major highways get upgraded or moved, but > residential streets stay put, railways usually stay put, rivers don't move > very fast, coastlines don't move very fast.
Think POI's, names, landuse, boundaries, development (from natural to farmland to houses to commercial development). And think long-term. *Eventually*, by definition, historical data will indeed be the majority of data - time is infinite, Earth is finite. But anyway, can we move on? I'm simply saying we should look at this as what it really is - extending OSM to the time dimension. If you don't think the API will need to be extended, fine. I think it would be nice :) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
