[OHM] copy old buildings from OSM into OHM

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Marcus -

Great question - what use case did you have in mind? 1-off copying of
details, larger-scale imports, general practices, etc.?

To Richard W's point, yes, I think this is something we should definitely
be doing. There's a ton of historical information existing in planet OSM
today. Easy examples: any historic (no -al) building in any major city,
historic districts or blocks / quarters might be lifted directly. This will
almost certainly also be the case for historical roads. Many modern roads
cover similar courses, but with different dimensions and surfaces.

So, for simple one-offs, I'd suggest saving a .osm file of the appropriate
objects from api.osm.org. Copying this directly into OHM will cause issues
due to object / way IDs, but I'm hoping someone can point out how to fix
that. In the mean time, you should be able to fiddle with the objects in
JOSM and upload them to api.ohm.org.

For more large-scale imports, I'd suggest adding some more detail and
seeing what suggestions the list has to offer.

- Jeff


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Robert Warren wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Anything that has an 'end-date' should be retained on the OHM if it is
> being deleted from OSM! But until there is a mechanism for archiving data,
> then it should not be deleted from OSM anyway.
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