[OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

[Ed Avis]

Lester Caine <lester <at> lsces.co.uk> writes:

>As I said ... adding the dates on which the new roads appeared around the 
>Olypmic village, or a new motorway spur or residential road was opened will be 
>history in 100 years time but costs nothing to add today?

When something exists today, it would be nice to add the date it was constructed.
start_date would not be my ideal tag name, but it works.

However I don't think it makes as much sense to add an object that doesn't exist
today.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>