On 04-Jan-18 01:19 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com
<mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>> wrote:
If I had any idea when the schools went out of service! I'm really
not up to doing the historic research; they've not been schools
in my memory (and I'm an old man).
Does OSM record the past? Or does it record the present - 'what is
on the ground' ?
What is on the ground is a building that looks like an old
schoolhouse. It has a stone
lintel with a carving that reads "DISTRICT SCHOOL Nº 4 (or whatever the
number was - I don't recall at the moment)". And it's now used as a
private house. Both the history and the current use are visible on the
ground.
As far as I'm concerned, it is a building=detached
historic:building=school.
It's not a disused, abandoned, or demolished school building, the building
is in fine repair. It is a historic school building that, despite
being used as a
private residence, still bears obvious indicia of what it once was.
I shouldn't need to have to research its actual dates of service to be
able
to tag that much, particularly when I'm repairing a GNIS node that
mistakenly
asserts that it is currently a school.
In which case I like marc tagging solution;
building=school
building:use=residential
That tags 'what is on the ground'.
In what way is it historical?
Most things have history .. but 'historic'? i.e. "well known or
important in history"
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