Jeff, Talked to Eero, Juha and Thea at the LODLAM meeting in Montreal, things are generally going in this direction for everyone involved. Another project is Wikiwar [1] that tried to crowd source a lot of the extraction.
The work by Eero et al depends on external sources for their data (e.g.: the official history of the great war and wikipedia) and they don't make their own decisions about what is important. Paraphrasing a quote from a period movie:"It was a battle that was really only a small skirmish that was unrecorded by historians, but it was memorable enough for those who took part." I'm going to hook in the trench map coordinate generator into the OHM to automate imports from linked open data for the Great War. But I think that the value of OHM is that smaller, pinpoint events can be recorded by people. I note that pretty much everyone knows where the Battle of Gettysburgh happened, but the details, such as where someone's ancestor was billeted or fought, is something that we still need recorded. Incidently, is anyone going to the State of the Map is Birmingham? [1] http://www.wikiwar.net/ > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [OHM] Interesting event gazeteer article > > All - > Susanna pointed this out to me today & I thought others might find it > interesting: > http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2011/hyvonen-et-al-sapo-2011.pdf > > I'm not up to speed on historical event models, but this looks like a great > step in the right direction for potential use for higher-frequency events > (i.e. stuff people would put in map overlays and not into base tiles...). > > If you know of other stuff like this, please let me know! > > Thanks, > Jeff _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
