>> Richard,
>> You know the OSM data model does not deal well with change and has poor 
>> (geometry<>feature<>label) separation. My suggestion is that since the 
>> roadway has not changed significantly, have the geometry encoded as a series 
>> of nodes that get allocated to different temporal ways for the different 
>> "features" of that route over time. It is not a great solution but it works 
>> and is compatible with the renderers. The properties of roadways (width, 
>> etc...) are encoded at the way levels in OSM which lets you reuse the OSM 
>> highway tagging system.
> 
> based on my experiences in the past with JOSM, i think such an approach
> would be pretty error prone and difficult. over on Slack, Leon Karcher
> suggested tagging the single way with its most appropriate recent tags
> and using relations for the older one.

I don't believe that the relations will covey the state / properties of the 
road as a way would.

> way way back in 2015, this section of the OHM wiki page got set up: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map#Short-term_plans the 
> link to OHM/Tags was never filled in in the 4+ years since. i think it's high 
> time we started describing how people are tagging to reflect historic 
> features and dating. i certainly am working through a lot with my stuff, and 
> the method Leon is using could certainly go in as well, as examples of 
> experiments as this is largly experimental at this time.

I've checked, the page isn't locked. Why don't you start documenting how you 
are tagging roads?

-R
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