<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks Mike, the locality looks very good, I have other uses for it too.<br>cheers,<br>Chris<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Michael Collinson wrote:<br>>At 05:39 PM 12/5/2007, Chris Hill wrote:<br>>>Hi all,<br>>>I've been travelling around my local area and I've discovered that <br>>>few hamlets added from NPE are now not inhabited any more. Most <br>>>have just become a single farm. The council diligently put up place <br>>>name boards for villages when the widely disliked Humberside was <br>>>partly replaced by The East Riding of Yorkshire, even on some very <br>>>small places, but not on the places I have
in mind. So, to make OSM <br>>>a reflection of the current state as I found it I want to remove <br>>>these hamlets but mark them as some form of historic place so <br>>>they're not lost (or added again!), but I don't see such a tag. The <br>>>nearest seems old_name=... but this seems to be when a place is
renamed.<br>>><br>>>Any suggestions?<br><br>>There is two relevant solutions being discussed on the Proposed <br>>Feature wiki page:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Locality" target="_blank">>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Locality</a> <br>place=locality<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features#Proposed_Features_-_Place" target="_blank">>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features#Proposed_Features_-_Place</a> <br>place=croft<br><br>>I personally favour having a general place=locality for any feature <br>>that is of greater 'place' naming significance than the actual <br>>physical feature as it exists now. Being able to name places which <br>>are no longer population centres is one. I believe maps have an <br>>important role in keeping local historical/cultural names alive in a
<br>>mobile society.<br><br><br>>Mike<br>>Stockholm <br><br></div></div></div><br>
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