On 15/09/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > thing is, a dismantled railway has no end_date, it only has a start_date and > will continue to be a dismantled railway, till the end of time
Yes. On 15/09/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > railway=dismantled on the other hand is not a past feature, it is a > dismantled railway now, in the present. In the past it was a railway=rail > etc. I don't understand how a feature can be both "dismantled till the end of time" and "in the present". The only state that you can keep forever is the state of not being. To me, "dismantled" as used in OSM rails is a much stronger definition than "dismantled legos", it is a synonym for "fully gone". Saying that something is "fully gone in the present" is a roundabout way of saying that it is in the past. The start_date of the railway=dismantled is the end_date of the railway=abandoned/rail. So why not tag the railway=rail/abandoned with the date of its demise (not with a trolltag like end_date, but with something that doesn't trip up presentfans) instead of railway=dismantled ? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
