[OHM] date formats (was Re: Hidden Geo of NY's Gay Nightlife)

[Richard Z.]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:59:09PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 4/29/15 3:08 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> > On 4/29/15 2:39 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> >> - Dates
> >>   -- Handling approximate date ranges
> >>
> > we need to do this anyway, there are lots of cases where we
> > need to deal with this. 
> following myself up, which some people tell me is bad form...
> 
> my work on track documentation suggests a need for more than
> just start_date and end_date; tracks drift in and out of operation
> over time and end up with multiple start/stop dates. on top of
> that, there are tracks that were clay then paved or paved then
> clay, and in one supremely novel case, there is an inactive
> track not far from where i live that had pavement in the corners
> and clay on the straights for its first year of operation (not enough
> money to pay for pavement all the way around.)
> 
> right now i don't really know how to model something like that
> in OSM terms.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Date_namespace ?


Richard