[Talk-GB] railway:historic = rail tags

[Dave F.]

On 30/06/2012 15:11, SomeoneElse wrote:
>    Obviously "mapping things that aren't there any more" is a bigger
>    issue
Has there been discussion about this outside talk:railway? If there 
hasn't I'm a bit annoyed that a niche user group didn't discuss it with 
the wider world.

You're correct it has been discussed before but I thought there was a 
conclusion - that OSM is not a historic document.

It there is physical evidence of something from days gone by then tag it 
as such but if the landscape has totally obliterated it, leave it be. If 
Peterito wants to create a 'railways of the past map' he should use OSM 
as the _current_ background and import old ways from a separate database.

One of the problems is where do you stop? I live in a city that's goes 
back beyond Roman occupation. If OSM were to be totally inclusive & 
complete in a historic sense then my patch would be a right PITA to move 
around within the editors, let alone amend anything.

Cheers
Dave F.