[OHM] copy old buildings from OSM into OHM

[Robert Warren]

I've been thinking we should have a script that pulls in buildings from the OSM history file that no longer exist. Simple way to keep short term history recorded. 

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> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 09:58:57 +0000
> From: Marcus Koenig <einschmelzer at hotmail.com>
> To: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [OHM] copy old buildings from OSM into OHM
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>> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:08:06 -0400
>> From: rwelty at averillpark.net
>> To: historic at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [OHM] copy old buildings from OSM into OHM
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>> On 5/18/13 9:56 AM, Marcus Koenig wrote:
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>>   does anyone know an easy way to copy data of historic buildings that 
>> still exist from the OSM into OHM ?
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>> it shouldn't be hard to do an extract via one of the apis and then load 
>> it up into josm.
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>> but is this something we should do?
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> Why shouldn't we? Are there any reasons that speak against it? If we try to create city maps for a certain point in history, we don't have to draw existing buildings again. 
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> Marcus K?nig
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