2012/1/16 John Sturdy <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed. > > As long as the tagging used is such that things that no longer exist > are not normally rendered (and only show as thin outlines on standard > editors) I think including historic data shouldn't be a problem.
it still is (or could become) a problem, because you will have it in the editor. There is a German user who added historic data for a small area, have a look at this in your editor: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.29533&lon=11.46637&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF > Compared with the amount of modern ("current") data, there's not > really that much of it, anyway, so its effect on the storage > requirements is going to be fairly small; -1, obviously there is (potentially) much more historic features in almost any area then there is now. Think about cities and demolished buildings. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
