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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-Jan-18 01:59 PM, Warin wrote:<br>
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----------------------- So OSM decaying things - with decisions
leading to the next category <br>
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where something has ceased being used (note, observation and
judgement required, fairly easy);<br>
<u>disused</u>: -<br>
where putting it back into service requires substantial work
(note, observation and judgement required)<br>
<u>abandoned:</u><br>
where restoration is uneconomic (note, observation and judgement
required)<br>
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Some object to this as it requires judgement, but then so too does
the step between disused to abandoned. This definition is not as
fuzzy as that of disused to abandoned<br>
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cite="mid:861c061e-6f8a-5134-9a32-04b716f5e7eb@gmail.com"> <u>ruin/ruins/ruined:</u>
(ruined matches the tense of the above tags so would make sense
that way)<br>
where the feature no longer exists, there maybe traces, but few of
them. (note, observation and judgement required though this is
fairly easy)<br>
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cite="mid:861c061e-6f8a-5134-9a32-04b716f5e7eb@gmail.com"> <u>demolished/removed/was/destroyed/razed/gone/past/former</u>
- all the same thing as far as results on the ground - the feature
no longer exists. So why the need to signify the method? In one
word non-existent - and that might be the best tag to use? <br>
Some want to put these in to try and stop additions of things that
are not there e.g. a building in satellite imagery that has been
demolished. So 'non_existent:' might be the best to hope for. <br>
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As well as non-existent there is 'absent' and that might be better
as it is a single word without negation. Is it easily translated
into other languages? It has a Latin base. <br>
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