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

[Andrew Chadwick (lists)]

On 28 June 2013 12:04, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> think about stuff like the castle of Berlin, demolished in 1953, the whole city evolved around it for hundreds of years (obviously still noticeable in the urban structure), and when the socialist "palace" was demolished the foundations and basements came to light, now they're reconstructing it...
>

Remolishing it, surely? For at least the second time :) Either way,
object identity is fluid. I don't think OSM had a ledger record or a
punchcard for it back then...

But it does have current historical, archaeological, and possibly
tourist-economic, interest. But where do we limit ourselves in what we
represent in our simplistic tagging scheme? In think it suffices to
state "this site has historical interest", (and archaeological, and
tourism), and leave filling in the detailed timeline reaching back to
1443 to other databases.

-- 
Andrew Chadwick