I strongly prefer encoded into the URL, to stay consistent with how tiles are
currently requested, and make it simple to adapt client viewers.
Looks like "tile_translate" in mod_tile.c would be the place to start? Have you
forked mod_tile on github?
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>________________________________
> From: Rob Warren <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:39 AM
>Subject: [Historic] Dating features (was: Introduction & questions)
>
>Richard,
>
>nice to talk to you again, we previously met at the OSM Hack weekend in
>Toronto last year.
>
>There have been some previous discussions on the mailing list about this topic
>that should probably be added to the wiki. I also have an interest in
>modelling troop movement, through how to do this would breaking the rails
>databases is problematic. ...there is also the question of whether we wish to
>link to 'current' features within OSM proper.
>
>I'm currently fighting with renderd - I'd like to be able to add date ranges
>to tile requests so that only items within that time range are rendered on the
>map. I'm trying to decide between a scheme where the date range is encoded
>directly into the URL or within a parameter of the URL request. Any
>preferences?
>
>best,
>rhw
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:11:21 -0500
>> From: Richard Welty <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Historic] introduction & questions
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>>
>> i just joined; Jeff Meyers pointed me at the list after a brief exchange
>> on talk-us
>>
>> apparently some history oriented OSM projects i'm interested in doing
>> match up pretty
>> closely with the goals of this project, and the strategy here looks very
>> much like what i
>> thought would be necessary.
>>
>> i'm (among other things) interested in entering time stamped troop
>> movements from
>> American Civil War battles and campaigns, with the ultimate goal of
>> producing
>> customizable animations showing the progress of events.
>>
>> having said that, has there been any previous discussion about tagging?
>> in particular,
>> things like having a standard tag prefix so that we have a somewhat
>> independent
>> namespace, e.g. historic:foo or ohm:foo?
>>
>> has there been any previous discussion about tagging historical events
>> and places in
>> general?
>>
>> thanks,
>> richard
>
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