[OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

[Lester Caine]

John Smith wrote:
> On 9 November 2010 15:24, Michal Migurski<mike at stamen.com>  wrote:
>> >  Would this apply to the planet, as well?
> I would suggest that the main planet dump would keep the status quo,
> that is default to current objects only.

At some point the planet dump will have to be made a little more 'modular' and 
one way of doing this may well be to 'only return current data' but even that 
has problems when the current data does not have correctly implemented timeline 
information on it.

The main reason that I am wanting mapping information is exactly because I am 
looking at genealogical data and this most definitely requires that start and 
end dates are accurately recorded. In many areas of the world historic map 
information may well not be available, but in the UK we have some reasonably 
accurate material going back 3 or 4 hundred years in places. More speculative 
material such as ancient Rome or Greece may be a little more controversial, but 
even that has some will mapped archaeology which it would also be nice to preserve.

As new roads are being added, such as in the Olympic park in London, INCLUDING 
accurate historic data should be a simple mater of best practice?

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