[OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

[Kevin Peat]

On 9 November 2010 12:46, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> historic ways that have been overlaid with a new road structure are not
> very common.
>

I don't think that is true at all. Everytime a new housing estate is built
there are changes to existing highways, new roundabouts, junction changes,
etc. If you kept both the old and new in OSM it would be an editing
nightmare.

OpenHistoryMap is a great idea for a project and if it existed I am sure I
would contribute to it but I think mixing that data into current OSM is just
a bad idea.

Kevin
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