On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:46:45PM -0500, Albert Pundt wrote: > The old_ref=* key seems to be used a lot for any previous designation of a > road, even decades before. Often a road will have had different > designations over the years. For example, I-676 in Philadelphia was > initially designated I-80S from 1957 to 1958, followed by I-895 from 1958 > to 1960, I-76 from 1960 to 1974, and today I-676 since 1974. There's no > good way that I know of to represent all this.
Disregarding the issue whether this belongs to the main database you may want to look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Date_namespace and join the discussion there. Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
