We have been trying to fit substantially more information into the OSM tagging schema than it was originally meant to support. Workarounds are available for simple things with start_date and end_date, but we can only go so far with things like 'DisusedRailroad'.
From other work, the recording of historical GIS data requires: a) Labelling by language, datetime and by source. The 'source' is necessary to keep sanity when dealing with multiple nomenclatures used by different people. b) The associated feature by datetime. c) The different geometries associated to the features by datetime. d) The different states (active, disused, abandoned, damaged) by datetime. The above is the only way to capture all of the use cases you mention. Given the amount of work that an NEH submission is going to be, perhaps we should look at a redesign of what is under the hood. OSM is already using two different databases for editing and rendering! best, rhw On Dec 19, 2014, at 8:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:20:07 -0800 > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > To: Richard Welty <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OHM] tagging for historic race tracks > Message-ID: > <CAA1fFexccePOAQ=dhzrmg-b-u2hewqf4qq46vfwgb38ripz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > These are great questions to consider - I've asked the same thing about how > to represent historical Tour de France routes on a year by year basis. > > I'll defer to others on this list on how to handle, but I did think there > was something similar to bus routes that might be reappropriated for this > type of application (e.g. a use-based set of tags, rather than > feature-based). > > Do you want to take stab at figuring out a starting point for tagging > conventions for this stuff & posting it on the wiki? He who writes first > writes best? > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> more fun tagging issues to consider: >> >> 1) the original watkins glen course (1948 through >> the early 50s) ran on public roads that still exist. >> so it could be tagged in OSM. but maybe it should >> be in OHM instead? what do we do? it will never >> be raced on again. >> >> 2) there are traces of old ovals in the form of >> city streets, one which is complete in San >> Francisco, and one which is only in part in >> Rhode Island. so these could be partially or >> completely tagged in OSM. again, what >> should best practice be? once more, these >> will never be race tracks again. >> >> >> >> richard >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >> Java - Web Applications - Search >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> > _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
