[Tagging] tagging for decaying features

[Warin]

On 04-Jan-18 09:31 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ricoz.osm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Repurposing is a part of the life cycle that the Wiki article
>     does not
>     > appear to contemplate.
>
>     I have changed the wiki article to mention this. However most of the
>     current use of "historic:*" seems to be for other purposes so it
>     is easily
>     a bit confusing.
>     For your kind of use the "date namespace" may be an alternative.
>
>
> If I had any idea when the schools went out of service! I'm really
> not up to doing the historic research; they've not been schools
> in my memory (and I'm an old man).

Does OSM record the past? Or does it record the present - 'what is on 
the ground' ?

I think it is a case for OHM ... record it there as a school - best 
estimates of dates with a fixme for those that want it more accurate?

>
> I was mostly trying to clean up no-longer-schools
> that came in from the GNIS import, and didn't want them to be
> deleted altogether when they're still visible on the ground.

In OSM .. put it in as a comment?
I think it is a detail that does not require rendering.
Think that is possibly the best solution?
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