Sounds solid and already used quite a bit. But wait, is it start_date:somekey or somekey:start_date?
Tobias On February 15, 2019 11:03:01 AM GMT+01:00, "Stephan Bösch-Plepelits" <sk...@xover.mud.at> wrote: >Hi! > >I have some thoughts in the start_date tag, as I find it a bit too >vague - >meaning start of what? > >Example: There is this museum, which openened in 2011, but the building >is >much older, it was built in 1725: >https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1937535 > >An option would be to prefix start_date with the key of the indicating >tag, >e.g. amenity:start_date would describe the start_date of the current >amenity. So, non-prefixed start_date would apply to all other tags. > >This seems to be quite popular anyway, but I don't know if this ever >has >been agreed upon - at least it's not documented as such: >https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=start_date > >For the museum, which I mentioned before, I used the following tags: >- start_date=2011 >- building:start_date=1725 > >Other remarks: > >It would also be interesting to be able to tag the start of >construction - >often construction starts many years before the building is finshed: >Airport BER in Berlin, Germany or La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, >Spain >are famous examples. How to tag this? Maybe: construction:start_date? > >Any thougths on this? > >greetings, > Stephan > >PS: OpenStreetBrowser has a category which shows building:start_date >resp. >start_date: >https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#categories=buildings-start_date > >PS: I even found, that people translate 'start_date' by using a >language >suffix (e.g. start_date:fr, start_date:ja): >- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/start_date%3Afr#values >- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/start_date%3Aja#values >I wrote a node module which can translate start_date values (English, >German, French available). Pull requests welcome! >https://github.com/plepe/openstreetmap-date-format _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
