[OSM-talk-be] Meeting with SPW (some elements of the discussion may also interest Flemish people)

[Renaud Michel]

On 2013-03-23 at 21:55, Julien Fastré wrote:
> The SPW has also a request for our community (this is were flemish
> people might be more interested !)
> 
> They would like to use OSM to track changes in Wallonia. They would like
> to know where to send their teams, where there is some new roads, or
> where the roads or elements are modified.
> 
> The problem is: how to track those changes ? If I add a new road in OSM,
> is it a road build in the past month, or is it a road build years ago,
> but which didn't exist in the osm'db ? And if I update a line "highway",
> am I correcting some mistake, or adapting our map to some new reality ?
> 
> We thought about one solution: a tag "since" to object which are updated
> or build in the reality and modified in the db. Example: if a road has a
> new bike lane, I update the line with JOSM and add the tag
> "since=2013-01-01" on the object. Within SPW, they track the tags
> "since" and see where are changes.

Don't re-invent the wheel:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date


-- 
Renaud Michel