[OSM-talk] A post box called Breuningsweiler

[David Earl]

> >While villages, rivers and peaks will tend still to be here 50 years on,
> >vast swathes of woodland have been chopped down, very many (most?)
> >industrial works have closed or changed use. Vast numbers of farms have
> >been
> >abandoned or consoldated into much larger units.
> >
>
> It's actually precisely the reason I wanted to do it. The change of data
> with time is just as useful, in the same way as the map you printed
> yesterday won't be the same as the one you print today. We don't have a
> clear method of differentiating data by era at present so I wanted to look
> at that aspect. One of my uses for OSM data relates to genealogy
> which needs
> maps from different epoch's.

But doesn't that mean we are all going to see woods on the current map that
were chopped down years ago?

David