[Tagging] waterway=derelict_canal

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 11:51:34 UTC 2015


On 27/08/2015 12:15, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
> There's no point in a disused:foo=bar namespace. That's either 
> historical mapping or hiding from the renderer, both of which are 
> wrong in OSM. 

Er, no.  A disused:amenity=pub is something that still exists in its own 
right; it's a building that was a pub, is still a building, is probably 
still usable as a navigational aid and gets rendered on maps that want 
to show that sort of thing:

http://i.imgur.com/lxFc6ds.png

... it just doesn't sell beer.

Cheers,

Andy (SomeoneElse)

PS: That one's since re-opened (hurray!)




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