[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Most data in historic information is very tiny areas, most of the data will be only current information.

It seems we have different ideas about the scope of this proposal,
then. I thought the implication was that in the future, if something
that has been mapped ceases to exist, it should not be deleted, but
appended with an end_date tag, and any new features should be added
and appended with a start_date tag.

This would lead to massive amounts of historic information into the
future - i.e. nothing that has been correctly mapped need ever be
deleted.