On 2/27/17 4:58 PM, yo paseopor wrote: > > OK, with new tags, with new values, with new behaviour, but not > outside OSM data because if there would be another "accident" or > unafortunate facts the information will be inside OSM and other can > start another render with these information. > if we do our backups properly, then data will not be lost again. the goal is for backups to be in a number of places, separate from the main server, and tested so we are sure they're good. > Think about Wikipedia: is wikipedia divided in kinds of information? > All are at the same system, You have some portals but all the > information is at the same place (for this reason an image in > wikipedia is uploaded to commons). > Historic information is so important...that I think all has to be at > the same place (data). Renders is other thing, you can make whatever > you want, featuring the information you want to. > > > so from my point of view, keeping the historic data in its own > place is > part of > trying to keep OSM peace. did we have some problems? yes. are they > correctable? > yes. i think some lessons have been learned, but our takeaway is very > different > from yours. > > > I don't know what is your takeaway. I'm a user, I'm a mapper, I'm a > man who loves the history and I want that all my possible future work > and the others won't be lost, and will be accessible...forever. > Because that is about history. So more information, more historical > information about refs would be interesting in OSM with the correct > keys and values. > > in the past many OSM users have expressed hostility to trying to load up all this historic data in OSM. none of them have spoken up so far; hopefully they will do so and express their concerns & objections in an appropriate manner (tagging is not always a friendly list, but this discussion has been friendly so far and hopefully it stays that way.)
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