[OSM-talk] Lost tags

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:39:56 +0530
Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is quite painful to see that countless hours of effort has been
> deleted for no fault of my own. Is this just the result of the osm
> data model where tags cannot exist without geometries, or were these
> tags considered as being dirty and were legally supposed to be erased?

I think the former is correct.

If you go through the history planet file and create a list that goes:

"somewhere in the world there is a way that has the properties
name=Bingbong Street, maxspeed=30" (provided that both these properties
were added by agreers) then it would be ok to publish that list and
even use it to add to OSM. I don't see how it can be much help though,
especially if it contains info like "somewhere in the world there is an
object with wheelchair=yes and opening_times=so-and-so" ;)

Bye
Frederik