[Talk-GB] NPE data

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sun Oct 6 16:32:28 UTC 2013


Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> NPE maps were the first backgrounds for the editors other than some quite low
> res Yahoo imagery of the UK, so people used them for mapping
> streams/rivers/woods etc back in the day. As you have noticed, they don’t
> necessarily relate to modern streams – they may have dried up or been
> culverted/piped long since. They are all over 50 years old, (for copyright
> reasons) after all.
>
> Yes, if the facts on the ground have changed, then the stream needs to be moved,
> or removed. No process needed, just use an editor.
>
> Note – only remove NPE tagged items if you know they have changed – don’t just
> do a mass-remove! (That’s in the unlikely event you were planning to write a bot
> to remove them all!)
>

Of cause it would be nice if people could actually tag when a feature ceased to 
exist using the end_date tag. This is all important material for the OHM view of 
history.

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