[Tagging] Bad tag: demolished=<date>: move to a) modify, b) strongly discourage

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Andrew Chadwick (lists)
<a.t.chadwick+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>   iii. We should not in general be mapping features which are no
> longer physically relevant. Demolished items by their very nature are
> not relevant, and are potentially not verifiable. OSM a map of the the
> world as it is in reality, verifiably and currently, and not a
> historic map. If a demolished item is currently a brownfield site, it
> should be tagged as a new object with those details. If it's now a
> construction site, tag it as that.

Mmmm...not quite. You're driving home from work. The bridge you
normally drive over has been demolished. I'd say that's pretty
"physically relevant" to you right now. And tomorrow. And probably for
a few weeks. Maybe months. That bridge that was demolished 6 years
ago? Not so much. It's up to local mappers to decide when to remove
the object altogether.

So, yeah - find a better way to mark objects as demolished. But no
need to deprecate the notion altogether.

Steve