[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 23/08/2015, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 8/23/2015 2:03 PM, Dave F. wrote:
>> Are you saying if a building gets demolished & replaced with a new one,
>> you wouldn't remove the original outline from OSM?
>
> In my case, I've begun to do just that, adding a note to alert the 'Bing
> tracers' that something has changed.  But I would eventually remove it
> after Bing is updated.   Only historic or notable buildings would go
> into OHM.

That's actually something I do as well:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2554879309 but I only add a note=*
node, I certainly don't keep any building=* closed way.