I'm not sure if I'd call it delete, maybe something more verbose and general like "reinspect_date". This would be useful for some highway construction projects I've added which have given an estimated date of completion.
-Josh On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Flaimo <fla...@gmail.com> wrote: > recently i stumbled across one of my edits i did over a year ago. i > mapped a new house with building=construction and the area around it > with landuse=construction. i totally forgot about that, and since > there don't seem to be any other mappers close by, nobody removed the > construction tag even though the house has been finished a long time > ago. > so i thought, maybe it would be nice to have some tags to handle > situations like this: > > 1) delete = <ISO datetime> > > elements (node, way, area, relation) tagged with this key could be > deleted after the date given (as long as they don't share any data > with other elements) > > > 2) delete:<Key> = <ISO date> > > same as the key above, but only deletes the line for the referenced > key (if it still exists at the time) > > > change:<Key> = 2011-04-11T12:22:22;<Value> > > same as delete:<Key>, but instead of deleting the line it would change > the value for the referenced key. if the key doesn't yes exists or > doesn't exists anymore, it gets added. > > so in my case i would have added a "delete=2011-01-31T00:00:00" to the > area tagged with landuse=construction (which was over a bigger > landuse=residential area) and a > change:building=2011-01-31T00:00:00;house to the building, which at > that point was still tagged with building=construction. bots then > could check the database on a daily basis for those tags and > delete/change them accordingly. > > what's your opinion on that? if the overall response is positive, i > could start a proposal for it. > > flaimo > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
