[OSM-talk] Old villages

[Michael Collinson]

At 05:39 PM 12/5/2007, Chris Hill wrote:
>Hi all,
>I've been travelling around my local area and I've discovered that 
>few hamlets added from NPE are now not inhabited any more.  Most 
>have just become a single farm.  The council diligently put up place 
>name boards for villages when the widely disliked Humberside was 
>partly replaced by The East Riding of Yorkshire, even on some very 
>small places, but not on the places I have in mind.  So, to make OSM 
>a reflection of the current state as I found it I want to remove 
>these hamlets but mark them as some form of historic place so 
>they're not lost (or added again!), but I don't see such a tag.  The 
>nearest seems old_name=...  but this seems to be when a place is renamed.
>
>Any suggestions?

There is two relevant solutions being discussed on the Proposed 
Feature wiki page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Locality 
place=locality
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features#Proposed_Features_-_Place 
place=croft

I personally favour having a general place=locality for any feature 
that is of greater 'place'  naming significance than the actual 
physical feature as it exists now.  Being able to name places which 
are no longer population centres is one.  I believe maps have an 
important role in keeping local historical/cultural names alive in a 
mobile society.


Mike
Stockholm