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