I stand corrected. I thought this was a call for mapping the past situation instead of the present situation. That has happened before, and I’m not a fan of those ideas.

I agree with you that using lifecycle prefixes for buildings that have recently been destroyed or otherwise removed, while also mapping the present situation without a lifecycle prefix, is probably the best way forward.

You could preserve the pre-invasion situation on a local copy, outside OSM. Then we can use OSM to map the status quo, following the guidelines as documented on the Wiki.

Everybody who praises OSM for having helpful, accessible and detailed geodata is praising mappers like you. Keep on rocking!

That’s a good workflow. Thank you for the work and the write-up!

This is a great write-up. Thank you very much.

Okay, but have you mapped all the manhole covers?

Thank you for helping with the removal of spam on OSM. Here’s an older discussion about the same topic, including methods to detect the SEO spam: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/seo-spam-edits-mystery/110302