2013/1/21 Robert Warren <[email protected]>: > Does anyone have any ideas about how to handle events that involve movement, > such as forest fires or battlefields front lines?
There is also another kind of movement, think for instance of egyptian obelisks: they used to stand for hundreds and thousands of years in egypt, but were then transportated to other places (many of them are in Rome). It would be interesting to have a relation between the original place and the place they are now. There is a lot of other stuff with similar characteristics/history but less prominence (e.g. columns that have been taken after a war, moved and reintegrated into newer structures, ...). Spoils in general, if it is still known where they come from, are examples for this phenomenon. In other cases it might be disputable whether it makes sense to map them in OSM, e.g. a metal sculpture that was molten and a different sculpture in a different place was made of. An example that comes to my mind is the victory column in Berlin: * it was made after the German-French War of 1870/71 and errected in front of the Reichstag: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_und_Siegess%C3%A4ule_um_1900.jpg http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.518251&mlon=13.372582&zoom=18&layers=M * in the nazi times it was raised by one segment and moved from there to their new East-West-axxis where it stands until now (the other allies refused the french request to tear it down after 2nd WW): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siegess%C3%A4ule_nah_2.jpg http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.514533&mlon=13.350148&zoom=18&layers=M On a microlevel there are cannons from the wars attached to the column and there are bronze plates telling the story of the wars from the contemporary German point of view which were made from conquered cannons of these wars. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
