2012/9/20 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>:
> My own interest here is more historic than current and I was looking for the
> development of areas relating to my family tree, but there seems to be a
> general consensus that once an object ceases to exist it should be deleted
> from the database.
there is not this general consensus in the community for completely
removing former objects (but it might be a majority who doesn't want
them, not sure). Have a look at abandoned and disused features, some
"historic" features and also objects to be expected in the future
("proposed" and "construction").
Just a few days ago someone proposed on the German ML to agree on a
standard way for tagging these by applying the status as a prefix
(e.g. disused:amenity=pub). There is some well established objects
that work differently though (railway=abandoned, etc.)
cheers,
Martin
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