[OSM-talk] I've removed historic=icon from map features

Tony Bowden tony at tmtm.com
Thu Jan 10 22:58:04 GMT 2008


Robin Paulson wrote:
>>> After - I think - three questions over the last months about
>>> historic=icon on this list - with no real response - I just removed it
>>> from the map features page.
>>> If some one comes up with a good explanation what this is we might put
>>> it back later, but in the meantime this was only confusing ...
>> Was my explanation not valid?
> it was valid, but they're not really map-worthy. if we go down that
> route, where do we stop? every painting?

That may be a valid reason to remove it, and I'd almost certainly agree 
with it. Saying that it was removed because there was no real response 
or no good explanation of what it is, is rather different, though.

Tony




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