2012/9/20 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>: > My own interest here is more historic than current and I was looking for the > development of areas relating to my family tree, but there seems to be a > general consensus that once an object ceases to exist it should be deleted > from the database.
there is not this general consensus in the community for completely removing former objects (but it might be a majority who doesn't want them, not sure). Have a look at abandoned and disused features, some "historic" features and also objects to be expected in the future ("proposed" and "construction"). Just a few days ago someone proposed on the German ML to agree on a standard way for tagging these by applying the status as a prefix (e.g. disused:amenity=pub). There is some well established objects that work differently though (railway=abandoned, etc.) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk