[Talk-GB] NCN 279 Exeter to Okehampton (and other destructions)

[SomeoneElse]

On 06/09/2014 23:09, Guy Collins wrote:
> ...
> On an unrelated note I have been editing around Exeter airport today 
> and it appears that I have (?) inadvertently made the runways 
> disappear: maybe it was not the edit that caused this? The deleted 
> taxiway, which is no longer there on the ground is 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/113022920 and this was part of a 
> greater set of improvements in this change set: 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25272252.
>

Re the Exeter airport taxiway,

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/113022920/history

was indeed deleted, but looking at the history shows that most of the 
nodes are still there and part of

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/302126513

with exactly the same tags, so I wouldn't expect that change as such to 
have made it disappear, although a new stylesheet was rolled out today

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-September/070804.html

which I suspect means that there may be a bit of a delay with rendering.

Another question I guess is how we'd expect a disused no-longer-there-on 
the ground taxiway to be mapped and to render (and I'm aware that the 
tagging of that feature predates your edit by a year or so, so this is 
completely unrelated to your changes). Where I've mapped e.g. 
Lincolnshire former WW2 airfields I've tried to map "what there is now" 
in terms of current features (service roads, areas of concrete) but also 
added "historic:aeroway=blah" to describe what they were.  See for 
example here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/104070967

Maybe that's a better option than "map it as a thing but then add 
disused=yes"?

Cheers,

Andy


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