Hi Lester - Yes, this list is targeted at the latter camp - what would an OSM-filtered view of 1820 London look like?
So, we're interested in the metadata of history & providing APIs to access that information. For the point about historic maps, Matt Knutzen's intro email on this archive touched on that (& I think you replied). Ideally, we would be able to have an environment where we can view the OSM H map for a particular year, along with any historic maps from that area (from Topomancy or other providers)? We may also want to be able to tag multiple sources for a single way or node (this map and that map) so that sources could be investigated. So, we clearly have some interesting data modeling (& tagging) challenges ahead of us. I believe that the tagging of the start date of much of what is already in OSM is a great question (esp. as I would expect that the current world reflects a lot of information about the state of the historic world). We may want to revisit the topic of data imports for OSM-H as to whether we should view it differently (more friendly?) than the rest of the OSM community. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff Meyer wrote: > >> Not sure if OSM Historic is the right name, but it seems fairly >> descriptive and >> benign. >> > > There are - I think - two 'camps'? > Those who want simply to see the development of the current data over > time. Something that is currently being managed via the change note history. > > And the 'camp' I am hoping we are discussing, where it should be possible > to set a 'date' and view the one the ground situation on that date? > > I suppose there is a third element, working with scanned historic maps, > but that is something we already have access to behind the main map. But > it's tagging the start date of objects on the MAIN map based on this > historic data that is the currently contentious problem? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - > http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - > http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**uk<http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/historic<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic> > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347
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