On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: > > I'd prefer to see them left in, but with a :historic appended to the > > name of the tags. In some cases, there remains evidence of the > > historical use, e.g. what was a schoolhouse is now a home. > > Certainly moving or cloning the Historic marker into the tags, the > formal metadata, is better than it being only informal in the name. > > That would make them disappear from the common renderings, but would > keep them in the database for use by a custom style or query? > It sure would be interesting to bring this to the attention of the entire OSM community. Historical geo-data like this could be immensely useful for someone doing historical analysis or even someone that was curious about when their childhood street was paved over with that new Wal-Mart. Perhaps we could have a key something like "time:start" and an optional "time:end" that would allow people to query for data that is historical in nature. Adding the 4th dimension (time) to OSM...
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