On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > historic: used for things that are historic. Being historic does not > > imply the state of repair, use or where they are in their life cycle. > > > > For want of anything better, I've used this to tag things that have been > repurposed; for instance, a private home that was once a schoolhouse, > still bears the school's name on the lintel, looks for all the world like > an old schoolhouse, but is nevertheless a private home. > > Repurposing is a part of the life cycle that the Wiki article does not > appear to contemplate.
I have changed the wiki article to mention this. However most of the current use of "historic:*" seems to be for other purposes so it is easily a bit confusing. For your kind of use the "date namespace" may be an alternative. Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
