Hi fellow mappers,
While doing some TIGER cleanup, I often stumble over historical schools tagged
as:
amenity=school
name=some small town school (historical)
which are rendered on the map with their name. Are there any ideas for a better
tagging as most of
them (all?) arent really schools any
2014-03-04 11:38 GMT+01:00 Theodin theo...@posteo.de:
which are rendered on the map with their name. Are there any ideas for a
better tagging as most of
them (all?) arent really schools any more.
I tagged some as
historic=school
which was in the database 80 times. Any better ideas?
they
All gnis objects that are (historical) are no longer present and
should be removed.
- Serge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Theodin theo...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi fellow mappers,
While doing some TIGER cleanup, I often stumble over historical schools
tagged as:
amenity=school
name=some small
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Theodin theo...@posteo.de wrote:
OK. It says the same on the GNIS-Wiki-page so Im going to do that in the
future. Although it might
be a valid information for history-buffs to get an image of how things were.
We don't store historical information in OSM. There
Ok Serge,thanks for the encouragement!
I have seen schools in the middle of the forrest in a natural park so chances
are big there never
was a school at that location at all . Ever. :)
Thanks,
Theodin
Am 04.03.2014 15:32, schrieb Serge Wroclawski:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Theodin
2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com:
We don't store historical information in OSM. There are other projects
which do, but OSM looks at what's currently in the ground.
yes, and no, we do store in small niches also historic information in the
main project, e.g. with
We need to be able to distinguish between the object no longer being present,
and the object still being present but its usage having changed. If it is
likely to be of historical and/or landmark interest, tagging both the
historical name and current name is useful.
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Hi all,
I think this is a good spot to put this thread to rest. We've answered the
question at hand and have since strayed a bit off topic.
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On Mar 4, 2014 8:48 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski
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