OpenStreetMap community

4072 readers

63 users here now

Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

I need some help . (mstdn.dk)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I need some help @openstreetmap.

UPDATE: Thanks for all the help!

What do I do, if a business has closed down, and then a new business has taken over the same place?

Do I mark the previous business as “does not exist” and add the new one, or do I edit the existing one?

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #OrganicMaps

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@danish @openstreetmap in general edit the existing one, all elements in OSM are versioned and it is considered best practice to maintain the history of objects.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

@danish @openstreetmap naturally I do have to add one nerdy and nitpicking observation. It is actually "nearly all elements in OSM", as versioning was introduced with API 0.6 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_changes_between_v0.5_and_v0.6 in March 2009, elements deleted before that date are literally gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@simon @danish @openstreetmap

But only when it is the same object. If it was a POI marked on the map as a node, then it is better to delete the old node and create a new one.

Otherwise we will get something like this: https://osm.org/node/2/history

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

@foxy @danish @openstreetmap you need to differentiate between reusing existing nodes for other purposes (as in your example), which irl works against preserving history, and using an existing element for a new or different facility in the same place (there is some grey area there obviously).