Recently some friends of mine moved into an apartment that other friends of mine used to live in. This has caused a fun issue on the timeline where “Alice’s apartment” is now “Bob’s apartment”!
Currently we can merge places but we cannot mark a place as deprecated to distinguish it from another place that might exist at the exact same location. I’d like these to remain seperate places so that the history of the timeline is preserved and my record of visiting “Alice” is kept intact despite the apartment now being “Bob’s”. I imagine this would also be helpful for stores that change tenants?
Ah! This sounds like what the various place databases do with marking businesses permanently closed. But for personal/private places that language would feel a bit odd. Or at least humorously incorrect.
I’ve long meant to pick up that data from the place APIs, to mark locally stored Places as closed, so that they get appropriately demoted in results lists. But hadn’t thought to take it the extra step and make it possible for private places too!
It does now! We’re planning some Place system upgrades for around v1.2 to v1.3 (and some of it possibly sneaking in to v1.1.1, though not visibly). This one fits in nicely with those plans. Filed now as BIG-525.
