On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > On 29/08/15 08:50, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > >> In OSM we do that by tagging the small elements properly. Deletion is > >> > vandalism. No smiley. > > > And in case of elements no longer present correct tagging is a complete > > lack of tagging, therefore deleting is perfectly OK. > > The current situation is quite simple ... one view of the data is that > only currently visible data will be displayed and to make life easy any > well documented history is now simply scrap. The fact that people are > also documenting the future developments in the database and that this > needs to be hidden until it becomes valid is no different to simply > hiding historic material. > > That there are a proportion of users who would like access to the very > data that others think should be scrapped is a simple fact. So we need > two versions of the database. One with only 'physical precedence' > elements only, and a second which simply allows a view at different > points in time.
josm has filters. They also help if your screen is flooded with pebblestones mapped as natural=stone. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
