[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 19/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Even so, this would be a minority of data, the majority of roads rarely if ever change. New roads get added, major highways get upgraded or moved, but residential streets stay put, railways usually stay put, rivers don't move very fast, coastlines don't move very fast.