[HOT] OSM in historical research

2017-07-05 Thread Katie McDonough
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

Re: [HOT] OSM in historical research

2017-07-05 Thread joost schouppe
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

Re: [HOT] Live stats for mapathons / RedCross API / JOSM plugin(was: Mapathon stats analysis)

2017-07-05 Thread Violaine Doutreleau
Hi, Good to hear, don't hesitate to give us feedbacks afterwards ! For the download error, changing the overpass server can help in some cases, but then you won't be able to use the end date option (but still usefull when you do that just at the end of the mapathon)... Bests, V Le