Re: [HOT] OSM in historical research

[Rory McCann]

Hi,

I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but Townlands.ie
is a website based off the current state of historic Irish
administrative boundaries in OSM. It's just formatted differently from a
map ;) I have heard that many people working in geneology and the Irish
diaspora find it very useful. Many libraries and regional historical
societies like it.

Have you considered emailing the main OSM list (t...@openstreetmap.org)
or the historic list (histo...@openstreetmap.org) to get more feedback.

Rory

On 21/06/17 09:34, Katie McDonough wrote:

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

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Re: [HOT] OSM in historical research

[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 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 
:

> 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
>
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[HOT] OSM in historical research

[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 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

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