OpenStreetMap
Yesterday, I was cycling along the Old Bailey - not my usual route to work, and noticed a lack of something.
A whole block had been razed to the ground by developers in some redevelopment scheme.
While I was editing Openstreetmap to reflect the new state of reality, I felt like a vandal. All those POIs relfecting all the businesses along that block that had been carefully mapped by other mappers were deleted, a service road deleted. In it's place now lies a bit landuse=construction.
Discussion
Comment from chillly on 13 December 2011 at 16:38
You're not a vandal, just the opposite, but watch out for one of the armchair mob putting it back to the way their old aerial imagery looks :-)
Comment from marscot on 13 December 2011 at 21:28
yeah put a note saying that this is whats on the ground and then date it
Comment from kevjs1982 on 16 December 2011 at 14:48
On the A46 between Widmerpool and Margidunum, where the road network has changed during the widening works, I have left a way (on the route of the old way) with just a note on it explaining what has happened - seams to have kept anyone from adding the old roads back - unlike areas of Nottingham city centre where the roads reappeared shortly after I had removed them completely during road realignment works!
Comment from nichlas on 14 January 2012 at 21:04
I always make sure to tag it as source=survey to impress on future editors that this is as seen on the ground.
Comment from Electrotechie on 28 October 2012 at 16:30
(I know, a bit late) Wouldn’t it be great (thinking of the future) if, instead of deleting things we could just add tags “demolished:date” and for the new items “constructed:date” then change the normal searches to “now” and leave the options open for “state at date X” - yeah I know, too complex.