[OSM-talk] How does one tag a business that closed and was replaced by something else?

[Lester Caine]

On 14/12/15 17:18, Andrew Wiseman wrote:
> In this case, two businesses closed and were replaced by a single
> business that took over both buildings (they are adjoining.) How should
> I tag this? I didn't see anything about closed: or former: on the wiki.

If the units are individually identified simply re-tag each with the new
name. While some people will say 'historic data does not belong', the
change record for each building will retain the history. If you delete
each and create a new single building a lot of history which IS recorded
will be lost. At some point the two units may split again. I presume
that both already have their own address entries anyway?

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