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I need some help . (mstdn.dk)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Delete the old business and create the new business. Alternatively you can change the information to match the new business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Please don't delete and recreate if you can. Keeping the history of points is useful, if you delete a point you will delete its history. Wiki article with more details: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good article.

@infeeeee: Regarding deletion of history. Not sure if you simplified, but its not true that deletion of a point will delete its history.

As the article states

Deletion is not erasing the history of an object in the database.

It is just harder to find after deletion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@redd @infeeeee
much harder to find

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True! And the "Chronic" feature on www.openstreetmap.org is not really helpful for searching deleted nodes.