[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Names change all the time. Building codes less often but when they 
change, I currently plan to only worry about modelling the present.

Historical data is not unimportant, but it's not worth overcomplicating 
the main use-cases.

On 12/12/2011 15:23, Ian Stuart wrote:
> On 12/12/11 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
>> number 86?
> What happens when Building 42 is renamed Building 42a?
> Is there a concept of timeliness (when they start&  when the end) to names?
>
>> Nick
>>
>> On 12 Dec 2011, at 14:53, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>>
>>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a class for ex-buildings, so
>>> that if something refers to it, it's explicitly a demolished building
>>> (well, carried away on trucks in our case) rather than just a 404.
>
>

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