On 14/09/15 08:51, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Part of the problem here is that statuses such as
city, town and village don't always get taken away if a place declines in population
or over the centuries doesn't grow as fast as other cities. Case in point, in the
categorisation I've been doing on commons I occasionally come across abandoned
villages or churches that no longer have a village. But not "hamlets that formerly
were villages".
From the OSM view, being able to tag a former church which has now
become a
residence or some other use makes perfect sense so the end_date
for it's life as a church can be used, but one camp in OSM simply want
to wipe historic data and simply show current usage. Unless the church
was 'noteworthy' it may not be a candidate for a wikipedia page? So
where does one maintain the history of that structure. Hamlets such as
Egremont, Carmarthenshire, Wales are probably a case in point ... should
I create a page from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egremont since I can
provide history details of it's existence and a location, but we can't
add it directly into OSM because 'it no longer exists on the ground' ...
but there is a church ...
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