[Tagging] tagging for decaying features

[Warin]

On 04-Jan-18 01:19 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>     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' ?
>
>
> What is on the ground is a building that looks like an old 
> schoolhouse. It has a stone
> lintel with a carving that reads "DISTRICT SCHOOL Nº 4 (or whatever the
> number was - I don't recall at the moment)". And it's now used as a
> private house. Both the history and the current use are visible on the 
> ground.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, it is a building=detached 
> historic:building=school.
> It's not a disused, abandoned, or demolished school building, the building
> is in fine repair. It is a historic school building that, despite 
> being used as a
> private residence, still bears obvious indicia of what it once was.
>
> I shouldn't need to have to research its actual dates of service to be 
> able
> to tag that much, particularly when I'm repairing a GNIS node that 
> mistakenly
> asserts that it is currently a school.

In which case I like marc tagging solution;

building=school
building:use=residential

That tags 'what is on the ground'.

In what way is it historical?
Most things have history .. but 'historic'? i.e. "well known or 
important in history"
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