On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> > The main reason that I am wanting mapping information is exactly because I > am looking at genealogical data and this most definitely requires that start > and end dates are accurately recorded. In many areas of the world historic > map information may well not be available, but in the UK we have some > reasonably accurate material going back 3 or 4 hundred years in places. More > speculative material such as ancient Rome or Greece may be a little more > controversial, but even that has some will mapped archaeology which it would > also be nice to preserve. > > I think it's really a question for the foundation: - is OSM a database for the present only or not ? - If not, is it the job of the API to filter data by dates or is it something to be filtered by (all) OSM editors ? Because most of the contributors don't want to see historical data (which they don't care/cannot verify) mixed with the today's data in their editor. And without going back to the ancient Rome, every day some OSM data become obsolete (shops dissapearing, builings/roads destroyed, etc) and the average contributor will just delete them and not just add a tag 'end_date'. Pieren
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