"Thomas Wood" <grand.edgemas...@gmail.com> writes: > 2009/1/7 Matthias Julius <li...@julius-net.net>: >> If historic data is within the scope of OSM then it surely is not only >> of interest for railways. Therefore a generic way of tagging should >> be used that can apply to any object. Maybe removed=yes|<date> >> >> Matthias >> > > But then we get into the messy situation of not being able to read off > a single tag to decide what type of feature something is. > > Not all data clients are likely to implement a tag that means the > logical opposite of the existence of a feature.
This is true. Maybe it is better to use a namespace like removed:railway=rail; removed=<date>. This also preserves the type of railway. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
