[Tagging] Delete vs Removed LSP?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 25 Apr 2022, at 15:55, Dave F via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> How far back should we go? i live in a Roman city. That's a /lot/ of removed data.


seems like a red herring to me, or do you have knowledge about all this data back until ancient roman times?

Generally I agree, keeping stuff that is completely gone with lifecycle prefixes is something that exceptionally can make sense, but is normally not desirable.

On the other hand, we shouldn’t require that things are obvious to everybody, or that they are visible in all cases. For example if during construction work an ancient arterial road is “found” (or maybe better, is temporarily brought to light), and after some documentation is later recovered with earth, it should still be possible to keep the feature, even if is currently not visible on the surface (but could be checked on/in the ground by digging). Similar situations occur frequently because remnants are often recovered to protect them.

Cheers Martin