On Fri, November 12, 2010 06:46, [email protected] wrote: > It would be more logical to have the date construction started be > start_date, and the date construction completed be completed_date. > Having the completion date tagged as start_date doesn't make sense.
I agree. We have this 'opportunity' in Korea to record the start and end dates for construction of bridges, tunnels and buildings. This information is often visible on a plaque on or near the structure: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Korea_bridges At the moment there is are 'temporary' tags to record this: construction_start_date=2003-05-09 construction_end_date=2004-12-09 Since there are only a few instances of it they would be easy to change. I asked on the tagging list if there was a better way to do this but we didn't really reach a conclusion. I think 'start_date' on its own is insufficient, and really not the right tag to mean 'construction has ended and people started using the building/structure/whatever'. However, if it's defined that way then it's fine, but we then need a way to tag the start of construction. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
