On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I had any idea when the schools went out of service! I'm really > not up to doing the historic research; they've not been schools > in my memory (and I'm an old man). > > > Does OSM record the past? Or does it record the present - 'what is on the > ground' ? >
What is on the ground is a building that looks like an old schoolhouse. It has a stone lintel with a carving that reads "DISTRICT SCHOOL Nº 4 (or whatever the number was - I don't recall at the moment)". And it's now used as a private house. Both the history and the current use are visible on the ground. As far as I'm concerned, it is a building=detached historic:building=school. It's not a disused, abandoned, or demolished school building, the building is in fine repair. It is a historic school building that, despite being used as a private residence, still bears obvious indicia of what it once was. I shouldn't need to have to research its actual dates of service to be able to tag that much, particularly when I'm repairing a GNIS node that mistakenly asserts that it is currently a school.
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