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

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Thu Feb 4 10:08:41 UTC 2016


The "attic" is used (in previous non-hipster software development
times)  as the place for storage of outdated/dead etc code Now days it
is called github :-).

Simon

Am 04.02.2016 um 08:12 schrieb Paul Johnson:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl
> <mailto: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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