[OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to
> be some features added to support it.

That would actually be pretty easy to add in any renderer, if a
proposal was made for a tag like "status=historic" or
"timespan_end=xxx".

> By default historical data
> should obviously not be rendered but it also shouldn't even show up in
> editors unless you explicitly specify it via some option.

Yes, editors need better filters, not just for this reason. My bugbear
is administrative boundaries which always get in the way, and rarely
need to be edited.

Steve