On 31/08/14 07:16, Susanna Ånäs wrote: > The promise of the Wikimaps/OHM project is to connect geographical > features to knowledge about them in Wikimedia. But as the scope of > knowledge in WIkimedia is limited by practices of notability and > limiting original research, one would have to come up with a proposal to > solve that.
At the current time there are two ways of looking at this. One is that there is nowhere that forms a natural home for this sort of material. In reality however there are actually probably too many places that this can be developed using. The ideal situation for OHM would be that the various phases of building appear as buildings are built adapted and extended. Each of those phases of development would ideally link to a more in depth description of the change, but that content is not really suitable for OHM itself, and as Susanna has pointed out, it's inclusion in some of the archives like wikidata, wikipedia and so on requires a level of 'notability' To my mind if material has been well researched and cross references other sources it is notable, but that view is not well supported :( 'Facebook' is another pet hate, but the timeline facility does allow places to be described and histories recorded. Not ideal, but provides access to related material and can link to the timelines of the current residents :) You mentioned Amazon ... http://www.lulu.com is another route to perhaps recover a little of the costs that can be involved with in depth research. There are many other similar publishing sites . Personally I find maintaining my own material on my own websites gives me a bit more control, and I can then link to OSM and the like as required. http://phpgedview.lsces.org.uk/ for example, and at SOME point in the future that will use OSM as its base for Place Hierarchy. Anything 'notable' would then be tagged on OSM/OHM with a simple url link ... but it is reliant on others taking up the mantle and maintaining the sites in the future :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
