On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > On 28. Aug 2018, at 15:50, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > As others have said ... old does not mean historic. > > no, but not in use anymore means historic > No, "not in use any more" means "disused" or even "abandoned." "Historic" means that it has importance or significance in history. There are some disused buildings in my town. One day some of them might be renovated and brought back into use. They are not historic. I can't find any details about their former use or even their address. They just sit there sad and forlorn. There is another disused building, with plans to convert it to a shop, that is a listed building and is of historic importance. See https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300010470-former-hope-chapel-cardigan for why it is listed and http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/no-39-st-mary-street-advertiser-office/ for far more of its history. That is a historic building, the other disused/abandoned buildings scattered around town are not. Even after that building is converted into a shop it will still remain historic by the definition in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic but will cease to be historic by your definition (which is another reason your definition is not a good one). Historic as a tag is documented as not meaning "old" or "old fashioned" or "disused" and, in my opinion, should not be used to mean those things. -- Paul
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