Hi Paul,
I hope you are well.
As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no surprise
that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below:
== Reason 1: Open Historical Maps (OHM) is not an entirely separate project
to OSM ==
I will start by providing a bit of
On 09/11/13 11:58, Rob Nickerson wrote:
As you have seen my responses at [1] and [2], it will come as no
surprise that I oppose this move. I have set out my reasoning below:
Hi Rob, hi Paul,
I'll not venture into the how of this only the what...
Let's think about it from the perspective
Hi Andy,
We are mixing up two issues here. One is as to whether historic layers
should be removed from the default menus (and determining what counts as
historic of no value to current mapping) and the second issue of how iD
presents the list.
Please do not let an iD bug direct the future
Are there any *non*-historical uses for NLS - Bartholomew Half Inch,
1897-1907; NLS - OS 1-inch 7th Series 1955-61; or OS New Popular Edition
historic.
Of course there are. Historical maps are a huge source of meta data for the
landscape, much of which cannot be obtained in any other way. The
On 09/11/2013 13:14, Rob Nickerson wrote:
We are mixing up two issues here. One is as to whether historic layers
should be removed from the default menus
What exactly do you mean by the default menus here? There are no
default menus in OSM, only menus in different instances of different
Andy T,
By default menus I mean those background layers that appear for normal
folk who just go to osm.org and click edit (be that in ID, JOSM, Potlatch).
Basically those people who do not spend the time, or have the know-how to
add a new layer in JOSM's menus, or add a custom URL in ID. I'm also
A great website in this weeks Weekly Notice [1] (translated from German),
and a great reason as to why I contribute to OSM:
http://walks.io/
Best,
RobJN
[1] http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2013/11/07/wochennotiz-nr-172/
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