We need to be able to distinguish between the object no longer being present,
and the object still being present but its usage having changed. If it is
likely to be of historical and/or landmark interest, tagging both the
historical name and current name is useful.
-------- Original Message --------
From: Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>
Sent: March 4, 2014 8:09:01 AM CST
To: Theodin <[email protected]>
Cc: Open Street Map Talk-US <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] historic schools (amenity=school; name= * (historical)
All gnis objects that are "(historical)" are no longer present and
should be removed.
- Serge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Theodin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi fellow mappers,
>
> While doing some TIGER cleanup, I often stumble over historical schools
> tagged as:
> amenity=school
> name=some small town school (historical)
>
> which are rendered on the map with their name. Are there any ideas for a
> better tagging as most of
> them (all?) arent really schools any more.
> I tagged some as
> historic=school
> which was in the database 80 times. Any better ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Theodin
>
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