[OSM-talk] What is 'Attic Data'? or 'Why can't wiki writers use plain language'.

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu Feb 4 07:12:10 UTC 2016


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2016-02-04 07:58, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> I suspect you're onto something here; it's not a phrase that's even in
>> my GIS vernacular.  Don't even recall it from college experience
>> (though I took French and majored in civil engineering; amazing I'm
>> not mapping professionally)...
>>
>
> True. I think "attic" in this case would refer to a place where you store
> old things, so it relates to old data.
>

Based on zero context other than what list it arrived on, I figured it was
like tags from an import nobody uses anymore, like some of the
long-in-tooth tiger:*=* namespace still common in the US.
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