[OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

[Andrew Harvey]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And without going back to the ancient Rome, every day some OSM data become
> obsolete (shops dissapearing, builings/roads destroyed, etc) and the average
> contributor will just delete them and not just add a tag 'end_date'.

Just a thought, perhaps for the time being one could add a changeset
tag which says, this feature is being deleted because it is no longer
there, but it was once there, to all changesets of deleation of
historic features. Otherwise no one knows if the object was deleated
because it was an error, or because it is no longer there.