Hello.

Thanks for this, but current (good) practice in Belgium is to retag closed shops/amenities as vacant shops instead of erasing all the data.

There are several reasons for this:

1) QA apps like StreetComplete can easily ask users passing by to check if the shop is still vacant; it cannot do this if there is nothing at all.

2) It does not break relations (we have a relation here to bind this POI with its corresponding address).

3) Researchers occasionally use OSM data to follow the history of changes of some places with time; it works much better if the node stays active and gets retagged every time there is a new shop.

Thanks for this.