Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Hendrik T. Voelker
Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: So we have to come up with a way to contain alternating versions with time or other kind of restrictions. This would also allow construction sites to be mapped. ---8--- timecapsule frame from=1.1.2009 till=5.1.2009 node ... / way ... / relation

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Rory McCann
On 07/01/09 22:50, Stephen Hope wrote: We already have historical tagged items - things that don't currently exist. (US Civil war battlesites, etc). Battlesites are different, they are still around in some way. You can still go to a field and there'll be sign saying The Battle of X took place

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/1/8 Hendrik T. Voelker hvoel...@nutrimatic.de: Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: So we have to come up with a way to contain alternating versions with time or other kind of restrictions. This would also allow construction sites to be mapped. ---8--- timecapsule frame from=1.1.2009

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/1/8 Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com: 2009/1/8 Hendrik T. Voelker hvoel...@nutrimatic.de: Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: So we have to come up with a way to contain alternating versions with time or other kind of restrictions. This would also allow construction sites to be mapped.

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread David Lynch
I think that temporary and historical prefixes are the best answer to this, possibly with a relation for roads that are different due to the same event, project, etc. Tag things with what they are generally at the current day, and add exceptions as needed. I would envision an example like:

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/1/8 David Lynch djly...@gmail.com: I think that temporary and historical prefixes are the best answer to this, possibly with a relation for roads that are different due to the same event, project, etc. I'd keep historical out entirely. I see the point of temporary/intermittent data, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-08 Thread Tomáš Tichý
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 17:26, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: I think that temporary and historical prefixes are the best answer to this, possibly with a relation for roads that are different due to the same event, project, etc. Tag things with what they are generally at the current day,

[OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-07 Thread Hendrik T. Voelker
Hi guys. Peter Miller wrote: This raises the whole question around temporary maps - ie for 50 weeks of the year this is empty desert and for 2 weeks it looks like this. Another example is Glastonbury Festival which for 50 weeks looks like a farm and for 2 weeks is the second largest

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-07 Thread Rory McCann
On 07/01/09 13:02, Hendrik T. Voelker wrote: Hi guys. Peter Miller wrote: This raises the whole question around temporary maps - ie for 50 weeks of the year this is empty desert and for 2 weeks it looks like this. Another example is Glastonbury Festival which for 50 weeks looks like

Re: [OSM-talk] Temporary Items, overlays, changes

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen Hope
No, don't delete them if they may be of historical value (or if they come back again). Tag them with something so they don't show in the current day maps. We already have historical tagged items - things that don't currently exist. (US Civil war battlesites, etc). There is a festival near me