2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>: > We don't store historical information in OSM. There are other projects > which do, but OSM looks at what's currently in the ground. >
yes, and no, we do store in small niches also historic information in the main project, e.g. with the tags start_date and end_date, with the tag old_name and variants of this tag, with the disused and abandoned tags etc. A former school might also be an actual object, i.e. you might be able on the ground to see that there is a school which is closed (hence amenity=school doesn't fit, but disused:amenity=school or building=school could be accurate descriptions of what is on the ground). To decide you will have to know the area where you are mapping, deducting this from the name tag of an import is most likely not very "ground-truthy" I agree. cheers, Martin
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