[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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.

Think POI's, names, landuse, boundaries, development (from natural to
farmland to houses to commercial development).

And think long-term. *Eventually*, by definition, historical data will
indeed be the majority of data - time is infinite, Earth is finite.

But anyway, can we move on? I'm simply saying we should look at this
as what it really is - extending OSM to the time dimension.

If you don't think the API will need to be extended, fine. I think it
would be nice :)