# Maintain accessible archive of previous Taxon range maps when revised **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [January 11, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/maintain-accessible-archive-of-previous-taxon-range-maps-when-revised/9351 "2020-01-11T23:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pfau\_tarleton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/pfau_tarleton/32/346_2.png) [@pfau\_tarleton](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pfau_tarleton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/maintain-accessible-archive-of-previous-taxon-range-maps-when-revised/9351/1 "2020-01-11T23:13:06Z")
I recently updated several taxon range maps. Even though they were improvements over the range map that existed (I hope), I felt guilty deleting someone else’s efforts. Could an implemention be made that keeps the previous KML files that are replaced, and make them available as a list of previous taxon range maps (to allow for reversion to a previous one if warranted)? That way, nothing is actually deleted. And allow current and previous KML files to be downloaded for revision? And maybe request a description of the sources of data used to generate the taxon ranges? ---
**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/maintain-accessible-archive-of-previous-taxon-range-maps-when-revised/9351/2 "2020-01-11T23:15:27Z")
Hi @pfau_tarleton, I edited your request title to better reflect the specific feature you are requesting. Feel free to edit further if I didn’t get it quite right. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/maintain-accessible-archive-of-previous-taxon-range-maps-when-revised/9351/3 "2020-08-07T04:49:36Z")