[OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

[Nathan Edgars II]

Laurence Penney wrote:
> 
> On 10 Nov 2010, at 23:31, David Murn wrote:
>> Just out of interest, are you 100% against OSM keeping recent history
>> data?  If a building is demolished, do you believe that deleting the way
>> should remove any trace of that from OSM, or do you believe that OSM
>> should retain a history?
> 
> Of course the history trace is a very valuable thing about OSM. By
> contrast, adding things which don't exist any more - mapping the past -
> is, as Richard Weait says, orthogonal to OSM.
> 

Not necessarily; historic roads that no longer exist can be of interest to
"normal" people in the scope of a modern map. For example the Oklahoma
Department of Transportation distributes a set of maps showing the various
historic alignments of Route 66 across the state, including some where no
trace remains on the ground (for example the dogleg alignment at the west
end of
http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/route66/beckham/historical/town-range/t9n-r26w.htm).
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