Those are good points. I’ve created stub wiki pages for Key:abandoned:place and Key:disused:place - please edit if you have things to add.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:15 AM Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:49 PM Volker Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A side remark. Triggered by comparing abandoned palces with abandoned >> railways (and smilar), >> a ghost town with (some) buidlings still standing should be abandoned: ... >> a ghost town without trace on the ground should be tagged with razed: ... >> or dismantled: ... , but not with abandoned: ... >> Example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/150938807 >> This is a former town, of which you do no see any trace on the ground any >> more (apart from a few racks) >> > > I thought that the commoner lifecycle prefix was 'demolished' ? > > I use 'disused' if the buildings are relatively well preserved and might > be rehabbed, 'abandoned' if they're ruined, 'demolished' if the buildings > are not standing but the settlement is still observable. Most of the ghost > settlements that I've visited have clearly visible building foundations, > stone walls separating fields, and road grades (which may be grown to > trees, but are still obviously artificially graded) and are thus > 'demolished.' (The ones on State land have likely had their buildings burnt > to discourage squatters.) Theymay also have formations like tannery vats, > mine shafts, mill races or cellar holes. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/8690778427 is typical of 'demolished' > - the road has mature trees standing in it and is not passable for any > distance by anything on wheels, but the fact that the area was once a > settlement is obvious. (I've found the remains of a mill, a tannery, and a > forge in that former settlement, but have not been able to discover even > its name.) > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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