Here are a couple of interesting projects I have come up with recently: Humphrey Southall has made an effort to test using Wikidata as a backend gazetteer for the PastPlace project. See this intro for example http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_Wikidata_to_a_global_historical_gazetteer:_Pelagios_and_PastPlace
Bert Spaan from the Waag Society was presenting the Dutch historical geocoder project http://erfgoedenlocatie.nl/ (among other things) at the recent Wiki Loves Maps seminar in Helsinki http://wikilovesmaps.wikimedia.fi/. I have copied both to notify of the discussion and invite to join. Susanna 2015-02-18 16:33 GMT+02:00 Tim Waters <[email protected]>: > Interesting, do you know if the need was for present day geocoding where > the region exists in the mind of the locals, and where they refer to the > non existent place as if it still existed, so a search for the town in the > region now could well be expected to work or if it was primarily a historic > search, where everyone in the area doesn't use the name anymore, but where > a search was to show something that used to exist? > > On 18 February 2015 at 11:13, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FYI, I removed this week an historical boundary recently created in >> France: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4568925/history >> >> The intend of this contributor was clearly to find an existing town >> into its older region using the default OSM name finder (he was >> involved in a forum discussion) where nominatim could, for instance, >> sort the results by dates. Of course, tags like >> "type=boundary:1790-1972" or "admin_level:1790-1972=2" are not >> recognized by nominatim. >> I also forwarded this contributor to OHM explaining that OSM is not >> intended to support historical boundaries. But the demand exists. >> >> Pieren >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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