[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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