I am totally new to this, exploring what platforms we could use to build out the historical changes in our tiny village in Charentes, France, which we have been mapping on paper in meetings with the older members of the community. (I looked couldn't find any Mapping Projects on the Wiki that seem to overlap for our Department in France.) What we are mostly interested in being able to do is: - adding information to tags (nodes or ways, open or closed) that are already available on current day openstreetmap view to record the old names of streets, the use of a building, the family that lived there, from when to when; - adding new nodes or ways, for example, a public water pump or pond for watering animals that is no longer - linking old photographs of streets or houses - in all of this we sometimes have a specific date, sometimes a time period. Our main sources of information are a series of village meetings with the older community, consulting and modifying current day maps, as well as research in the village Mayor's records. We then want to be able to print out different views/layers to share with the village (our older community are not very tech comfortable). So my questions are (1) Does this sound doable on OpenHistoricalMap and (2) is it easy enough for a non-tech person to figure out (I have started reading the Wiki pages but still find myself with really stupid questions to even get started) and (3) would it be possible to keep some information private (some participants are leery of sharing information on the internet, e.g. family names, even if they are publicly available in other sources.
Thanks for any guidance you can give. *Kate Alley* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *cell +1 (929) 374-7757*
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