Shekhar - These are good suggestions - we have already moved to the term "Historical." See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM. We just haven't bothered to change the list name.
We also had a discussion on Historical OSM vs OSM Historical, but didn't really consider Open Historical Map at the time - see the latest email on subject here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-October/000060.html That said, I don't think there's much of an investment & we could change easily. Thanks, Jeff On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi. > > I wanted to discuss the use of the acronym "HOSM". > > It seems to me it sounds way too similar to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap > team, which is very well-established and recognised in the community. We > should not confuse identities. > > I would prefer if we used "OHM" as in Open Historical Map, similar to > projects like OpenCycleMap, etc. We have also registered this as the domain > openhistoricalmap.net/.org. > > Also as a historian we rarely use the adjective "historic" and prefer the > term "historical". Since the list and tag-line is already this I don't > mind, but "HOSM" is not distinct enough. > > Thoughts? > > Best, > > S.K. > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > Topomancy LLC > > http://shekhar.cc > http://topomancy.com > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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