[Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

[John Sturdy]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am interested in creating maps of historical features (e.g all roman
> remains, medieval things, World War 2 things etc.).

This could be extended to cover more everyday things, I suppose, but
that would require special attention by the ordinary renderers.  For
example, old routes of roads that have been re-aligned could be marked
with the usual "highway=..." and also with an indication of when it
went out of use.  However, to keep things simple for renderers (and
fewer tests in their code) it might be better to use some new key such
as "historic_highway=...".

__John