Might be slightly off topic, but I've made a map combining OSM (with a roads overlay) with several historical maps of Belgium I found, as well as GPS data (OSM and Strava). I find it incredibly fun to play with.
http://play.osm.be/historischekaart.html#15/50.7756/4.2953/osmroads-basemap1873 To my pleasant surprise, this map is now used by people interested in right of way paths, as a resource to help them defend existing paths or re-open closed paths. In fact, the attention from the community doing that for this map, has created at least one new mapper. (they see having a path in OSM as one more way to protect a path) Just this week, the historical maps hosted by the Irish OSM community was also mentioned in the Weekly. 2017-06-21 9:34 GMT+02:00 Katie McDonough <k.mcdono...@westernsydney.edu.au> : > Dear HOT community, > > I am writing to see if there are others on the listserv who use OSM (or > OpenHistoricalMap) to study & teach about the past. For example, I am a > historian of early modern France, and I use OSM in an undergraduate course > on the history of mapping from the renaissance to the present. > > I’m compiling a resource for other humanities scholars who may be > interested in using OSM as part of their research workflows or teaching. If > you are willing to describe how you use OSM, I would be very glad to hear > from you. If anyone has suggestions for other groups to reach out to, I > would be grateful. > > Many thanks, > Katherine McDonough > Research Associate in Digital Humanities > Western Sydney University > +61 (0)468 461 257 > kmcdono.com > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Joost Schouppe OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
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