[OSM-talk-be] abandoned railways

[Maarten Deen]

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:11:15 +0100, Luc Van den Troost
<luc.antw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another 'historical' point is that it is a pitty that OSM doesn't offer
> a kind of 'time-machine'. On one side it would be nice to see the growth
> of OSM that way, on the other side the map we are currently making will
> be historical one day. If - for instance - Doel would be broken down for
> harbour expansion, going back in time then would show how it was before,
> same would be if the 'hedwigepolder' on the other side of the border
> would be flooded again. But again, that is just a side remark and
> another discussion.

+1, I vote for a 'date_start' and 'date_end' tag on all nodes, ways and
relations. And when you want to render an old map, you just get the data
from that timeperiod.

Maarten