<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 November 2010 12:46, Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
historic ways that have been overlaid with a new road structure are not very common.<br></blockquote></div><br>I don't think that is true at all. Everytime a new housing estate is built there are changes to existing highways, new roundabouts, junction changes, etc. If you kept both the old and new in OSM it would be an editing nightmare.<br>
<br>OpenHistoryMap is a great idea for a project and if it existed I am sure I would contribute to it but I think mixing that data into current OSM is just a bad idea.<br><br>Kevin<br><br><br>