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Posted by CityEnginer on 20 February 2023 in English.

Thought I’d give editing my home town a go again ( have been here before). Please forgive me for any mistakes, it will not have been intentional. I see some issues with POIs for example a police station that doesn’t exist anymore the adjacent firestation is still there with POI. Do I remove the POI or just remove the info attached? When it’s a shop or a former bank I think I probably should remove the info and leave the point….. if anyone has any pointers on where to get guidance on this that would be nice, otherwise I’ll keep looking for guidance!

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Comment from MatthiasMatthias on 21 February 2023 at 04:47

Hello. Your ideas are absolutely right: it’s always good to keep the data, instead of overwriting out deleting you should use the life cycle prefix for the outdated POI; osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

P.S.: you will find more advice on https://community.osm.org and https;//wiki.osm.org

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