On 14/09/15 08:51, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Part of the problem here is that statuses such as city, town and village > don't always get taken away if a place declines in population or over the > centuries doesn't grow as fast as other cities. Case in point, in the > categorisation I've been doing on commons I occasionally come across > abandoned villages or churches that no longer have a village. But not > "hamlets that formerly were villages". From the OSM view, being able to tag a former church which has now become a residence or some other use makes perfect sense so the end_date for it's life as a church can be used, but one camp in OSM simply want to wipe historic data and simply show current usage. Unless the church was 'noteworthy' it may not be a candidate for a wikipedia page? So where does one maintain the history of that structure. Hamlets such as Egremont, Carmarthenshire, Wales are probably a case in point ... should I create a page from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egremont since I can provide history details of it's existence and a location, but we can't add it directly into OSM because 'it no longer exists on the ground' ... but there is a church ...
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