[OSM-talk] Old villages
Chris Hill
chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Dec 5 17:34:49 GMT 2007
Thanks Mike, the locality looks very good, I have other uses for it too.
cheers,
Chris
Michael Collinson wrote:
>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
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